Rough Draft
“The condition of man is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.” Thomas Hobbs. The paragraph will explain the theme of war in A Separate Peace. In the novel, A Separate Peace, John Knowles explores the theme that people can’t escape war and explore characterization of Gene, Gene hurting Finny mentally and physically, and the symbolism of war.
My first topic has that Gene hurts Finny both mentally and physically. First, Gene jounced the limb. “Holding firmly to the trunk I took a step toward him and then my knees bent and I jounce the limb”. This hurt Finny by breaking his leg after he fell. Second, Gene tried to enlist. “He needed me, I was the least trustworthy person he had ever met” (45). People trying to enlist hurt people by ripping families and friends apart from each other. Third, Gene told Finny pushed him out of the tree “ I jounced the limb” (62). This hurt Finny by showing Gene is not trustworthy. Gene hurt Finny mentally and physically.
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First, the fight outside against other people. “The class above seniors draft bait practically soldiers” (27). The fight we have against other people when we get looked down upon. Secondly the fight within ourselves. “The war would be deadly all right. But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly in things that lurking in anything I wanted anything I loved”(115). Most people don’t think about the true enemy the one inside each one of us that hurts people the most. Third the war we have with other countries. “Bombs in central Europe were completely unreal to us here no because we couldn’t imagine (...] but because our place here was too fair for us to accept something that.” (44). War has destructive properties that rips people apart or bring them together. All these examples show the symbolism of