Friendship can change people’s lives for better and for worse. In John Knowles’ A Separate Peace‚ the main characters‚ Gene and Phineas‚ have a complicated relationship which changes both of their lives. Gene is better off having been friends with Finny because Finny’s death causes him to accept responsibility and reality. Preceding Finny’s death‚ Gene does not admit responsibility for Phineas’ fall. Gene decides to tell Finny that the fall was his fault‚ because he thinks that is what Phineas would
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In the novel of the Great Gatsby the past come and hunt the characters that are present on the book. Many of them want to change the past‚ or they think that they can fight the present to change the past. In everyone’s life the past is a big problem because is something that you can not change‚ it can have a positive or a negative outcome‚ and in the Great Gatsby was a negative outcome. In the novel there is a character whose name is James Gatsby‚ he lives a healthy life in the West Egg‚ where next
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Have you gone through an experience where you lose your innocence. In the novels Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ and A Separate Peace by John Knowles‚ the main characters of both novels suffer a fall from innocence. Ralph from Lord of the Flies suffers his fall from innocence when he takes part in the brutal‚ gruesome death of Simon. However‚ Gene‚ in A Separate Peace‚ suffers the greatest fall from innocence. Gene subconsciously cripples his best friend Phineas‚ which in the end‚ leads to
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The past is something that should remain in the past. The present should be lived for instead. For Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby‚ forgetting what was in the past and letting go of it was a struggle. He was so in love with Daisy Buchanan‚ a girl he met five years ago‚ that he continued to pursue her even after she was already married. In The Great Gatsby‚ F Scott Fitzgerald shows the character of Jay Gatsby as someone who dwells on the past and would do anything to get Daisy back. When Gatsby found
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1) The main character of the book‚ A Separate Peace‚ is Gene Forrester. He is in the senior class at Devon. He is widely known as the smart student who is always on time to class and always does his school work. Gene is a good choice as the main character of this book‚ but if the author would have chosen Finny as the main character‚ the book would have been different. Finny leaves Devon for an amount of time because he breaks his leg. Therefore‚ if he was the main character‚ the book would not
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If যুক্ত কোন বাক্যের প্রথম অংশ past tense হলে পরের অংশ হবে past conditional। Past Conditional---- subject + should / would + verb +object Structure---- If + subject + verb এর past form + object + ‚ + subject + should / would + verb +object. Example-- If I received the mobile‚ I would know about the matter. If যুক্ত কোন বাক্যের প্রথম অংশ past perfect tense হলে পরের অংশ হবে perfect conditional। Perfect Conditional---- subject + should have / would have + verb এর past participle +object Structure----
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CXC short story award 2007 The CXC short story award 2007 went to this answer. CXC English A paper 2 question: Write a story which includes the words‚ "The phone rang once and stopped. It rang again. This was it now." Beads of sweat slowly trickled down my face‚ the numbing feeling of guilt stealthily creeping up my spine. I sat in my western looking living room on the cowboy patterned sofa‚ shaking from head to toe. The dingy brown‚ the room had been painted‚ it seemed nauseating at this moment
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Gene Forrester’s difficult journey towards maturity and the adult world is a main focus of the novel‚ A Separate Peace‚ by John Knowles. Gene’s journey begins the moment he pushes Phineas from the tree and the process continues until he visits the tree fifteen years later. Throughout this time‚ Gene must become self-aware‚ face reality and the future‚ confront his problems‚ as well as forgive and accept the person that he is. With the jouncing of the limb‚ Gene realizes his problems
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(a)‚ (b)‚ (c)‚ or (cl). There is only one correct response to each question in Part A. Part B consists of four (4) essay-type questions‚ each worth TWENTY (20) marks. Answer only TWO (2) questions from Part B. ANSWER EACH PART B QUESTION IN A SEPARATE EXAMINATION BOOKLET Answers to questions in Part B must be written in ink. Pencil may be used in answers to Part B for drawing‚ sketching or graphical work only. This question paper may be retained by the candidate PART A This section is
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In everyone’s life‚ there is loneliness but that loneliness is always filled up by something. This something is what makes someone happy and not alone. This something is friendship. The book A Separate Peace by John Knowles tells a story of the friendship of two boys attending a private boys school during World War II. These two boys‚ Gene and Phineas who is also known as Finny‚ shows an example of friendship. These two boys are best friends that learn from each other and they both have each other
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