Gene Forrester is the narrator of A Separate Peace‚ as well as the Protagonist. He tells the story as a flashback‚ looking back on his student days at the Devon School. Throughout the book‚ Gene is just like any other high school student who suffers from many typical teenage issues such as self- consciousness‚ jealousy‚ self- doubt‚ and not knowing who he really wants to be in life. When the story first begins‚ Gene is in his early thirties‚ visiting the Devon School for the first time in many
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Question Sheet B Sharon Jackson 1. The septum separates the heart into a right and left side. If there was a hole in the septum there would be a mix of oxygen right blood and oxygen poor blood and some oxygen right blood can enter the lungs instead of the body. 2. Capillaries exchange materials with the cells of the body there veins return blood to the heart and arteries take blood away from the heart 3. The SA node‚ or sinoatrial node initiates the heartbeat and automatically sends out a signal
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Gene’s Responsibility Gene is ultimately responsible for Finny’s death. Though he wasn’t the only person to have caused Finny to die‚ Gene did contribute to Finny dying the most. At first‚ Gene and Finny were best friends. Their friendship seemed perfect‚ as if nothing could stop it. Finny led and Gene let him lead and did pretty much anything that Finny wanted him to do. Gene even jumps off a limb of a tree because Finny wanted him to. Later on‚ when they go to the Headmaster’s tea‚ Gene realizes
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Coming-Of-Age Story Gene Forrester is the protagonist of a coming of age story in many ways. First Genes shift from ignorance to knowledge is pretty apparent. An ignorant Gene is led to the tree where he jounces the the limb causing Finny to fall. The knowledge of his evil deed and the loss of innocence because of it really launches Gene from childhood to adulthood. Genes shift from innocence to experience can be expressed by the very same situation. Gene lost his innocence when he jounced the
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"He was everywhere‚ he enjoyed himself hugely‚ he laughed out loud at passing sea gulls"(39). This line is describing Phineas‚ or Finny‚ and how he lives life to it’s fullest and seizes the day. Finny is an example of living the "carpe diem" (seize the day) philosophy from the movie "Dead Poets Society." There are a few examples in the first part of this novel of how Finny takes advantage of life. The first example is how he enjoys himself so much at the beach. Gene describes how Finny has such
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During the novel‚ Finny calls Gene his best pal after they had spent the day at the beach with each other. Gene doesn’t feel the same about Finny though. Gene accuses Finny of joking around and distracting Gene all the time because he believes Finny is trying to keep him away from studying and school. Gene chooses to respond poorly‚ and convinces himself to think that Finny was a bad guy‚ and that he was trying to distract Gene from what really mattered to himself. Gene started to think that Finny
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The play opens in the living room of the Brewster home‚ where Abby and Martha Brewster‚ and their nephew‚ Teddy live. Teddy‚ who is rather crazy‚ believes himself to be Theodore Roosevelt. Mortimer enters and announces to his aunts that he intends to marry Elaine‚ the minister’s daughter‚ whom he is taking to a play that evening. Things begin to unravel as Mortimer lifts the lid to the window seat. He discovers the dead body of Mr. Hoskins and assumes that Teddy has killed him. However‚ Abby
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In the beginning of chapter 11‚ Gene and Phinehas’s relationship look to be at its maximum potential. Finny is playing with people in a snowball fight‚ and Gene initially doesn’t want to play but Phineas persuades him to. They show their closeness by their ability to persuade each other to do things they wouldn’t‚ in their right mind‚ doing the first place. Gene expresses his concern when he asks Phineas if he should be playing in the first place. Later when Brinker comes to their room‚ he mentions
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against all. In the novels Lord of the Flies by William Golding and A Separate Peace by John Knowles‚ the authors both examine a story that takes place under limited adult supervision while in the backdrop of war. In this setting‚ the characters act out the worst of mankind. In Lord of the Flies‚ the main characters show the worst of mankind through jealousy‚ savagery‚ and fear. Contrary to Lord of the Flies‚ In the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles‚ the worst of mankind is shown mostly through
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“If Phineas had been sitting here in this pool of guilt‚ how would he have felt‚ what would he have done? He would have told me the truth.”(Knowles 66). Gene made a horrible mistake‚ but his first response is to do what Finny would do. They are best friends‚ Gene and Finny‚ because they balance each other out. Gene is quite refrained and a follower‚ but Finny is more outgoing and a leader. The problem with Gene being so refrained is he never talks about his feelings‚ instead he bottles them up until
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