Gene's Character Finny In 'A Separate Peace'

2. Gene says that Finny is not suited for war. Do you disagree or agree with this statement? I disagree with Gene’s statement that Finny is not suited for war. Finny was mentally prepared and seemed to want to enlist in some of the earlier parts of the book. There were many jobs within the U.S. Army and the war effort he could have done. It could have been possible to be a war doctor, or a navy dockworker, just not a soldier on the frontlines. He could have worked from inside the base, launching missiles or even a battle strategist. He just wasn’t physically able to be a soldier. What really shocked me was that he was writing to Russia and Japan and all these countries, some of which weren’t even part of the American Alliance. This seemed

One being the person who pushes Gene over the edge. Leper went to war, and came back broken. He wasn’t the same person. He showed Gene that war is a terrible thing, and that is what caused Gene to tell Finny he wasn’t suited for war. IF, Finny came back from the war, IF, he managed to live through however long it would be, he would be broken, like Leper. The living through the war, and Gene ever seeing Finny again is a huge if. Another role Leper plays in the book is sort of fake in my eyes. He is shown to be an artist. This peaceful, serene person who just wants to look at beaver dams. There are two times this happens in the book. Knowles piles on the opposite of that character’s end result. One is with Finny, piling on his beautiful walk, his athleticism, and his good spirit, only to have that destroyed later. And Leper, artistic, and peaceful, only to become a young man who is insane and broken. This is one of the worst thing that happens in the book: destroying

Not Finny’s, but Gene’s. Leper was questioned about what really happened that day with the tree. Because he didn’t know any better he said he saw an engine, one piston went up, the other down. It would soon have been figured out that Gene went up. Finny did not give them a chance, because he stormed out and fell again, but later they would have found out it was Gene. They would have bullied and beat up Gene for hurting Finny. They were Gene’s only friends, and with Finny gone he would have been alone. Gene might have committed suicide, therefore Leper being Gene’s Grim Reaper, or Gene would have gone back to who he was in the beginning of the book: lonely and