A Separate Peace Literary Analysis

Literary Analysis of A Separate Peace What do you think the most and the most meaningful theme or themes for you? In this book—A Separate Peace—it talks a lot about friendship between Finny and Gene, who are the main characters and have diverse personalities for each of them in the book. However, even though they have different personalities, they maintained a very positive friendship, which didn’t long too. Later in the book, they have some conflicts that lead to their end because one of the character’s jealousy toward his friend. As this essay summarized A Separate Peace, it shows a lot of themes of friendship and jealousy. These are the important themes in this book, and most people think these are the main themes, too. Friendship benefits a lot, which we gain from others a lot in life. Healthy friendships are wonderful, just like between Gene and Finny, for example, when Finny got injured by falling down from the tall tree, Gene helped him to get things that he couldn’t do or he needed to remain Finny’s energy from doing dangerous things such as playing around. Another evidence is that when Brinker, who claims that Gene purposely “pushed” Finny from the tree, bully Gene, Finny protected Gene, by saying it was just an …show more content…
The tragedy was about the deception of a friend. Gene repudiated that he didn’t “push” Finny from the tree. In fact he actually did because of his jealousy toward Finny which surprised the readers. And when Finny noticed that, which the readers have guessed already, he was shocked with frustration and trepidation. While he was repudiating himself that Gene didn’t do that, he fell from the stairs and injured his leg again, which led him to his death, sadly. This shows that everything that Finny’s trustworthy was broken, poorly by his best friend’s jealousy, which is a main evidence of unhealthy