Summary Of A Separate Peace By John Knowles

The setting of the novel, A Separate Peace, by John Knowles. The novel is set in New England at a boys boarding school within the early years of World War II. It’s exciting in the beginning. The beginning of the novel haws everyone jumping out of the tre, but as the story goes on there is a lot of anger and jealousy, The novel has many characters some of which are Gene, Finny, and Brinker. Gene is about 5’8.5”. He is our protagonist, the main man. He wants to be the top guy on campus, so Gene goes along with everything. Gene would always say all right to Finny no matter what it was Finny wanted. “Was he getting some kind of hold over me?”17 He did whatever Finny wanted without a single thought as to of what he was doing. Phineas more so known to as …show more content…
He wasn’t second place anymore athletically. He had more time to study which is important. He put in his time with the war. Over all Gene realized he won his battle. There is a lot of jealousy being thrown around. Gene just was never happy with where he was. He had to be the best all the time. He pushed Finny out of the tree for crying out loud. “I jounced the limb. I caused it.” That’s how jealous Finny was. He was upset with not being top in his class. “Fat chance you’ve got ,anyway, with Chet Douglas around.” 52 Gene couldn’t be top in his class he couldn’t study enough. He was always trying, but he just couldn’t. Finny was a big part going against Gene. The book is pretty relatable. I would have reacted the same was as when he said “you want to break something else in me.” 184 I can honestly can say that’s something I’d say. Something that bothered me is that Gene wasn’t bothered by Finny’s death. As he made clear when he said “I did not cry even when I stood watching him being lowered in his families strait-laced burial ground. I feel that he should of cared a little more at least. Overall spend time wisely cause you only have so much