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A Separate Peace Short Summary

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The setting of the novel, A Separate Peace, By John Knowles, is set in New England during World War II. The Author wrote this book to give us information about World War II. Also how things were at Devon’s Boarding School. The boys are training and learning about the war so the boys there can learn about enlisting into the war. The mood in the novel is basic. can be cool but it is really focused on having fun. The end of the novel is really dark and serious it really hits the spot. The two main characters in the novel are Gene Forrester and Phineas(Finny) But the the narrator of the novel is Gene he is telling us about his time at Devons Boarding School. Gene has a love/hate relationship with Finny they have known each other for along time but Finny does not know that Gene has a problem with him. Finny never really noticed it because Gene never showed him or told him or anything. Gene is also the protagonist in the novel he gives Finny smiles everytime he sees him but never told him anything he kept it a secret. Finny is the Sweet, Handsome, and Caring type of guy …show more content…

It was apart of the training for the war but no one would do it besides Gene and Finny. Finny came up with a group to try to get people to jump out of the tree but no one did it besides Gene. Another main event that happened in the story is that Gene had pushed Finny out of the tree it was based on their love/hate relationship. Gene did not want to confess up to it but did toward at the end of the novel. Everyone knew that Gene had pushed Finny but he did not want to think or believe that Gene had did it because he thought that they were best friends and thought that Gene loved him. The last main event of the novel is when Finny had died because the blood clot in his legs and the doctors could not get the blood flow to go threw his leg and he

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Throughout these chapters they discuss things like joining clubs, starting up carnivals, and Gene trains for the 1944 olympics. Chapters 7-9 show symbolism, character growth and literary devices. Chapters 7-9 take on a more lighthearted approach rather than the somber approach of last three chapters. That is until, the last few sentences of chapter 9 when Gene receives a letter from Leper Lepellier during the winter carnival. In the letter Leper says “I have escaped and need help.

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At the end of the novel, Gene has lost his true identity and acts like someone else. (137 words) Finny is the main character's roommate. Finny is very hyper, athletic, and spontaneous. He is well liked at the Devon School by his classmates and teachers. He is the rebel of the story.

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The entire time Finny and Gene are boarding at the Devon School, WWII is taking place. There are students enlisting and being drafted into the war and are surround by stress because they are worrying about being involved in the war. “The far common could be seen from my room, and early in June, I stood at the window and watched the war moving in to occupy it” (196). This quote is showing how resources at Devon School were being occupied and handed over to the unforgiving war. War, a scary thought and even a scarier reality during this time period.

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I was not of the same quality as he.” (Knowles 51) After that thought, Gene shakes the limb if the tree and allows Finny to fall and break his leg. This shows that, like Britain, Gene contemplates his friendship with Finny/Germany. The act of betrayal shown by Gene is similar to the declaration of war to Germany by Britain.

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Then later that night, Gene and Finny are pulled from bed by a group of several other boys from Devon and are questioned about what really happened before Finny fell out of the tree. Even Leper is questioned. When Leper begins to say that Gene purposely shook the branch, Finny stands up and shouts about how he doesn’t care either way, before running away, falling down the stairs, and breaking his leg a second time. Later, Gene sneaks into the infirmary where Finny is staying but he is absolutely furious, and makes him leave. The next morning he tries to visit Finny again, and they both agree that his actions on the tree was not on purpose.

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The novel, “A Separate Peace” written by John Knowles takes place in a boarding school (“Devon”) in New Hampshire during 1942. The same time as World War II. Brinker Hadley and Gene Forrester are faced with the decision of waiting to be drafted to the war, or enlisting. The benefit of enlisting is being able to choose which branch of the war to participate in. Being drafted almost guarantees a spot in the infantry, the most deadly branch of war but may gain honor for the boys back at home if they survive.

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We are then launched into a flashback to his time here prior to and during World War II. Gene’s roommate Phineas tries to persuade his classmates to make a dangerous jump out of a tree into the river. Being the only willing participant, Gene and Finny become fast friends and the start a secret society based on this ritual. Phineas had the uncanny ability to charm his way out of the trouble he was always getting himself and Gene into.

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Imagine if you went to an all boy school and had one friend who overshadows you in every aspect of your life. Falling under his shadow all of the time, you could never find peace with yourself. How would you feel? This is how Gene felt standing alongside his friend Finny when he attended Devon School. There were numerous traits that Finny possessed that caused Gene to envy him.

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After this point, compared to before it, Gene’s nature becomes much worse, darkening and filling with anger and guilt. Starting at the beginning of the novel, Finny and Gene’s relationship

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Gene cried when he found out Finny could no longer play sports anymore. Gene never showed his sensitive side in the story, but from that point his life got much more complicated. With this in mind, Gene no longer saw beauty in the world. Once the winter term began, Finny took time off from school to heal, and Gene starts falling apart. “Why go through the motions of getting an education and watch the war slowly chip away at one thing I had loved here, the peace, the measureless, carless peace of the Devon summer?”

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