John Knowles wrote a book called A Separate Peace that describes maturation and growth; challenges that Gene faces throughout the book. This book takes place in Devon Academy where Gene and his friend Finny go to school. Gene gradually loses the innocence he had once inside of him and tries to seek for peace within the environment that the story is taking place. The experience overwhelms him in his event of growth which forces not only Gene, but also his best friend Finny to either evolve or perish. “Everything must evolve or else it perishes” (Knowles 117). In this quotation it shows how the two friends Gene and Finny achieve their separate peace by moving on in life or either they die when they go through the stage of maturity.
Out of the two friends Gene is the character who achieve his own peace throughout the story. Gene often finds himself seeing Finny’s crazy vision of relaxation and how he would daydream about the 1944 Olympics. Gene gets tormented by the guilt he had over his friend Finny’s accident and had to get a surgery to get it fixed. After the second accident Finny dies which was caused by some marrow from a broken …show more content…
He leads people to be carefree and follows his own rules. Finny realizes of Gene’s guilt in his accident which forces him to see the darkness of humanity. Finny also realizes that the world he saw in his own mind was not the same as he realizes the how the real world is. He realized by the comment that Gene says about him that he will not be fit to fight in the war. Gene also said that he would only make a mess in the war, In the real world it is not as everyone seeks to win together but to succeed at the expense of the opposite side. Although, the world in not a place for Finny, who cannot comprehend that success can only be achieved by defeating others. Because of Finny’s innocence he cannot leave his protective shell and get a hold of the real
Out of the two friends Gene is the character who achieve his own peace throughout the story. Gene often finds himself seeing Finny’s crazy vision of relaxation and how he would daydream about the 1944 Olympics. Gene gets tormented by the guilt he had over his friend Finny’s accident and had to get a surgery to get it fixed. After the second accident Finny dies which was caused by some marrow from a broken …show more content…
He leads people to be carefree and follows his own rules. Finny realizes of Gene’s guilt in his accident which forces him to see the darkness of humanity. Finny also realizes that the world he saw in his own mind was not the same as he realizes the how the real world is. He realized by the comment that Gene says about him that he will not be fit to fight in the war. Gene also said that he would only make a mess in the war, In the real world it is not as everyone seeks to win together but to succeed at the expense of the opposite side. Although, the world in not a place for Finny, who cannot comprehend that success can only be achieved by defeating others. Because of Finny’s innocence he cannot leave his protective shell and get a hold of the real