Raphael Perez
Mr. Pelegrin
English 9 Period 5
6 September 2017
A Separate Peace: Warfare and Order From bloody battles in the war scene to conflicting relationships with each other, and breaking strict rules and getting away with breaking them, there was a lot going on at Devon. These are a few general examples of how the theme warfare and order is portrayed in A Separate Peace. What is warfare and order in A Separate Peace? Warfare is the wars going on around Devon and out of it, such as World War II and personal wars between characters. Order is the strict rules that are enforced on the students at Devon, and how the rules never applied to some students. What are some ways warfare and order are represented in A Separate Peace? Some ways …show more content…
One “illegal” club is the Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session. In this club boys at Devon meet up to jump off the big tree into a lake. This is not allowed by the school, but they do it anyways to get their minds off the war and get together. Finny often broke the rules and his charm always allowed him to get away with it. He almost never followed much of the rules and Gene always was jealous that he had the ability to get away from doing so. Brinker is an important character to the theme order, as he always followed the rules and encouraged others to do so as well. But as the story develops Brinker changes, he becomes more of a trouble maker and doesn’t listen to the rules much more, this could probably be because of the war and conflicts and actions of the students at Devon. These three things greatly show how order was used, manipulated and represented at …show more content…
When he enlisted, everyone saw him as a hero doing good things for their country, and made him the image of war for them. Soon enough after their “winter games” at Devon, Gene gets a telegram from Leper saying to meet him at the “Christmas location” and that he has escaped. Something must have gone wrong, or Leper couldn’t have handled the sights of war, which led him to escaping. So Gene meets him, and he sees that Leper has gone insane, and that the war has led him to get hallucinations and having a different horrific view on things. This was eventually told to the rest of the boys and people get the sense that the war is real, especially Finny who came up with the idea that it isn’t. This can tell us how the horrific and tragic events during war can change a man, and make them lose their
Mr. Pelegrin
English 9 Period 5
6 September 2017
A Separate Peace: Warfare and Order From bloody battles in the war scene to conflicting relationships with each other, and breaking strict rules and getting away with breaking them, there was a lot going on at Devon. These are a few general examples of how the theme warfare and order is portrayed in A Separate Peace. What is warfare and order in A Separate Peace? Warfare is the wars going on around Devon and out of it, such as World War II and personal wars between characters. Order is the strict rules that are enforced on the students at Devon, and how the rules never applied to some students. What are some ways warfare and order are represented in A Separate Peace? Some ways …show more content…
One “illegal” club is the Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session. In this club boys at Devon meet up to jump off the big tree into a lake. This is not allowed by the school, but they do it anyways to get their minds off the war and get together. Finny often broke the rules and his charm always allowed him to get away with it. He almost never followed much of the rules and Gene always was jealous that he had the ability to get away from doing so. Brinker is an important character to the theme order, as he always followed the rules and encouraged others to do so as well. But as the story develops Brinker changes, he becomes more of a trouble maker and doesn’t listen to the rules much more, this could probably be because of the war and conflicts and actions of the students at Devon. These three things greatly show how order was used, manipulated and represented at …show more content…
When he enlisted, everyone saw him as a hero doing good things for their country, and made him the image of war for them. Soon enough after their “winter games” at Devon, Gene gets a telegram from Leper saying to meet him at the “Christmas location” and that he has escaped. Something must have gone wrong, or Leper couldn’t have handled the sights of war, which led him to escaping. So Gene meets him, and he sees that Leper has gone insane, and that the war has led him to get hallucinations and having a different horrific view on things. This was eventually told to the rest of the boys and people get the sense that the war is real, especially Finny who came up with the idea that it isn’t. This can tell us how the horrific and tragic events during war can change a man, and make them lose their