A Separate Peace In the opening passage of A Separate Peace‚ John Knowles utilizes personifications‚ similes‚ and metaphors in order to create a gloomy and contemplative mood. At the beginning of the book‚ Gene Forrester is visiting his old high school‚ The Devon School‚ and the school ironically looks newer and more improved. As he explores this new school‚ a mood of gloom and contemplation is created. A personification such as‚ “Now here it was after all‚ preserved by some considerate hand with
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A Separate Peace A Separate Peace is a novel about two boy’s lives and how they evolve during the course of WWII. The story was written by John Knowles‚ who also left home to attend a school at the age of 15. The story involves many instances in which the barriers between friendship and rivalry are cited. One of the main characters of the story‚ Phineas‚ often demonstrates that it is important to be yourself and try to make the best out of a situation whenever confronted by one. Phineas
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A Separate Peace Outline Thesis Statement: In a Separate Peace‚ John Knowles uses the envy Gene has for Finny‚ Leper’s thought on war and Finny’s denial about evil in the world to create a theme of allusion vs. reality. Topic Sentence: Gene is so envious of Finny he goes to all means to bring down to his level. Quote: “…One evening when I was dressing for dinner in this numbed frame of mind‚ an idea occurred to me‚ the first with any energy behind it since Finny fell from the tree. I decided to
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In his novel A Separate Peace‚ John Knowles portrays the narrator’s solemn feelings about the Devon school. Gene revisits the Devon school and reminisces about his past there. He realizes a constant state of fear he had at Devon‚ he says “Unfamiliar with the absence of fear and what that was like‚ I had not been able to identify its presence” (3). When he goes back to Devon there is still a fear he carries‚ that remerges as he comes back to the past he had “escaped”(4). Gene contrasts his fear in
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Most stories’ titles give readers some insight of what the story will be about. This important concept is seen in the novel‚ A Separate Peace‚ written by John Knowles. In general the setting is its own separate peace. There are also specific examples of when characters in the novel try to create their own separate peace. The winter carnival is a good example‚ which shows the students at the Devon School creating their own separate peace. After being severely maimed‚ Finny enters his own state of
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November 26‚ 2011 A Separate Peace Symbolism In John Knowles’ novel‚ A Separate Peace‚ symbolism is used throughout the story especially in chapter 6. In Ch. 6‚ Finny‚ the main character of the novel is describing both of the rivers that are in the environs of the Devon School‚ the Nagumsett and the Devon River. These descriptions of the two rivers do not just expand our knowledge of the surrounding geography of the Dxevon School‚ but also symbolize the different stages of Gene and Finny’s
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Shianne Watkins Honors World Literature Camacho 6 January 22‚ 2013 A Separate Peace A Separate Peace‚ a fiction novel written by John Knowles‚ tells the story of a young man coming-of-age at an all-boys boarding school during World War II. The main character‚ Gene‚ struggles with who he is while his best friend‚ Phineas‚ is comfortable with himself. Gene creates a “friendly rivalry” in his mind between himself and Phineas‚ which does not actually exist. As the war becomes reality‚ so does Gene’s
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This story begins in 1942‚ during World War ll. Two close friends are at an all boys summer school called Devon located in New Hampshire. This story explores morality‚ restraint‚ and the loss of innocence through the narrator‚ Gene. In John Knowles’ A Separate Peace the two main characters‚ Gene and Phineas‚ are drawn together in a tight friendship despite the war going on‚ Gene’s jealousy of Phineas‚ and how different the two characters are. The war affected everyone at Devon by the end of the
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