Maya Patel
Kerby
English 5
15 October 2015
Friendship in A Separate Peace The novel by John Knowles, ASeparate Peace shows 2 young boys that go through many problems in their friendship. Their friendship goes thorough many things such as jealousy, identity, war, and competition. In the novel, John Knowles uses imagery, irony, and suspense to show the friendship of two sixteen year olds. First, Knowles uses imagery to show the oddly friendship Gene and Finny have at the beginning. “What was I doing up here anyway? Why did I let Finny talk me into stupid things like this? Was he getting some kind of hold over me” (17).At this moment gene is thinking if he did the right choice of blindly following Finny. Gene considers Finny as a friend but …show more content…
“It struck me then that what I had done before. I would have to back out of it, I would have to disown it” (70). Gene isn’t ready to face the truth of what he did to Finny. He is hiding from the truth because he feels what he did was too true to believe. Gene believes himself by thinking that probably pushing Finny off the tree was an accident. “As I had to do whenever I glimpsed the river, I thought of Phineas. Not of the tree and pain, but of one of his favorite tricks, Phineas in exaltation… The glory of the summer and offering it to the sky” (75). The ironic part is that Gene is gradually having a sensation in his thoughts that he misses Phineas because he is remembering his memories with him on the tree. “Listen, pal, if I can’t sports, you’re going to play them for me,” and I lost part of myself to him then…To become a part of Phineas” (85). Instead of thinking about what he did to Phineas, Gene sounds selfish at the moment that finally he gets to be a part of Phineas. Gene feels as if he achieved his goal instead of thinking about his friend who blindly trusts him and should be told the truth. Gene has totally changed; there is actually a bad part of gene. In wanting to be Phineas, Gene takes a huge drastic
Kerby
English 5
15 October 2015
Friendship in A Separate Peace The novel by John Knowles, ASeparate Peace shows 2 young boys that go through many problems in their friendship. Their friendship goes thorough many things such as jealousy, identity, war, and competition. In the novel, John Knowles uses imagery, irony, and suspense to show the friendship of two sixteen year olds. First, Knowles uses imagery to show the oddly friendship Gene and Finny have at the beginning. “What was I doing up here anyway? Why did I let Finny talk me into stupid things like this? Was he getting some kind of hold over me” (17).At this moment gene is thinking if he did the right choice of blindly following Finny. Gene considers Finny as a friend but …show more content…
“It struck me then that what I had done before. I would have to back out of it, I would have to disown it” (70). Gene isn’t ready to face the truth of what he did to Finny. He is hiding from the truth because he feels what he did was too true to believe. Gene believes himself by thinking that probably pushing Finny off the tree was an accident. “As I had to do whenever I glimpsed the river, I thought of Phineas. Not of the tree and pain, but of one of his favorite tricks, Phineas in exaltation… The glory of the summer and offering it to the sky” (75). The ironic part is that Gene is gradually having a sensation in his thoughts that he misses Phineas because he is remembering his memories with him on the tree. “Listen, pal, if I can’t sports, you’re going to play them for me,” and I lost part of myself to him then…To become a part of Phineas” (85). Instead of thinking about what he did to Phineas, Gene sounds selfish at the moment that finally he gets to be a part of Phineas. Gene feels as if he achieved his goal instead of thinking about his friend who blindly trusts him and should be told the truth. Gene has totally changed; there is actually a bad part of gene. In wanting to be Phineas, Gene takes a huge drastic