Melissa Banish Period 6 Mr. Weston March 28‚ 2012 “A Separate Peace” Research Paper The author of “ A Separate Peace‚” John Knowles once said‚ “Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in‚ which must mean that in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it” (Knowles 10). The “fear” mentioned previously‚ is a result of the times Knowles lived in‚ a time of a war‚ which had even affected
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A Separate Peace‚ by John Knowles has several themes. The main theme is jealousy. Gene faces many moments of pure fire and heat that radiates from him‚ that are pure jealousy. The whole battle of Finny and his leg began when Gene’s jealousy got the best of him. In moments when we let jealousy get the best of us‚ it has the tendency to turn everything sour. Jealousy is a blinding and powerful emotion. Gene had several moments of jealousy in the novel‚ A Separate Peace. Gene never dislikes Phineas
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Reaching a separate peace. A separate peace is finding peace in one’s own self. The innocence of Gene‚ Finny‚ and Leper will be obliterated so they can achieve peace. Growing to adulthood forces them to ether choose evolve or perish. “They were preparing it‚ if you see what I mean‚ for the future. Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.” (Knowles 125). It show how the boys achieve a separate peace or died evolving to adulthood. Achieving peace one’s own self is essential to go on with their
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Nathan Gourley Pd2 4/25/00 In John Knowles book A Separate Peace he communicates how the war in him was taking its toll on him. He uses the characters in a complicated plot to show the destructive forces of war. The characters‚ Gene and Finny‚ are the opposing forces in a struggle between the reality of war (World War II) and a separate peace. A peace away from the real war and the awful things that come from it. Through their relationship‚ which is a struggle on both sides‚ Knowles
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A Separate Peace: The Descent into Adulthood “To the soul‚ there is hardly anything more healing than friendship” (Thomas Moore). In the young adult novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles‚ the main character‚ Gene‚ reminisces about his friends from high school and his most significant‚ vivid memories. The experiences Gene endures in high school result from each student’s apprehension of becoming enlisted in the ongoing war. This hidden sense of battle created within each boy gradually destroys
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Julianna Jackson Ms. Sweeney Intro to Genre 14 May 2013 A Separate Peace Chapter 4 In chapter four the doppelgänger is starting to form. Gene is starting to believe that there is a deadly rivalry between Finny and him. Gene is striving to win the valedictorian which means he has to study hard. Gene thinks that when he wins valedictorian that Finny and him will finally be even. Gene asks Finny if he minds that Gene is trying to win valedictorian‚ Finny replies‚ “I’d kill myself out of jealous
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Gene is full of the evil that shows up in every story. Gene‚ the main character in the Separate Peace‚ thought his best friend to be his enemy. He also broke his so called enemy’s legs and tried to convince himself it had been an accident. Finny was then sadly eventually killed by Gene’s decisions and actions. Gene is inherently evil because he thought Finny to be his enemy‚ he broke Finny’s leg‚ and ultimately killed him. Should one think that their best friend is their enemy? Finny was the
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A Separate Peace Dealing with enemies has been a problem since the beginning of time. "I never killed anybody‚" Gene had commented later in his life‚ "And I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform‚ I was on active duty all my time at Devon; I killed my enemy there." In A Separate Peace‚ by John Knowles‚ the value of dealing with enemies is shown by Gene‚ who was dealing with few human enemies‚ but his emotions created far
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"A Separate Peace" takes place during World War II in 1943‚ a time of great uncertainty and changing lifestyles but the danger of this war never really seems to come near Devon. So does this terrible environment and events affect the characters of a Separate Peace or just provide a safe and surreal environment for the characters? The war in a Separate Peace may not directly affect the characters for the majority of the novel but we see its affects on the characters actions indirectly and it ends
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have to result in bloodshed. A Separate Peace written by John Knowles is a story of two boys‚ who attend a private school‚ Devon‚ during the occurrence of World War II. Through the simple yet intricate whole story there are many lessons‚ themes‚ and symbols that we as human beings can apply to our own lives daily. As humans we create our own enemies due to our envy and insecurities. In this novel Gene Forrester struggles to accomplish and preserve a separate peace. The novel is a result of Genes
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