World Peace Essay

over-embellished scenery can be abused, John Knowles, in his classic novel, A Separate Peace, utilizes the aspect of setting and surroundings to their utmost potential. This novel strives on contrast. Things are either black or white, or rather green or white. Green is symbolic for the students’ boyish attitudes. It represents obliviousness, perception of invincibility, and naivety. White, in contrast, symbolizes the harsh truth of the world around them, like the war. The characters, the scenes,…

Leo Tolstoy’s novel War and Peace deeply illustrates the lives of many characters. A compelling novel, Tolstoy maintains the characters’ verisimilitude through the use of body language and conflicts. The lives of Prince Andrei and Pierre -- two foil characters -- parallel each other as they embark on their journey towards a deeper self-understanding. Through the use of details, interpersonal and intrapersonal conflicts, and the subtle juxtaposition of Prince Andrei and Pierre, Leo Tolstoy is…

It is in the postwar time periods of the Napoleonic Wars and World War I that Europe sees a new way of addressing the underlying causes of war in the attempt to prevent another: collective security. Collective security is when a large group of nations agree to not attack each other as well as preserve the provisions of their treaties and/or agreements. It is during both these postwar time periods that collective security is practiced. However, both time periods have differences in the way…

Denial of Reality in a Separate Peace One large recurring theme in John Knowles’ A Separate Peace is the idea that refusing to confront reality causes people to suffer. With World War II as the backdrop for the novel, A Separate Peace pushes this ideology through a once innocent group of boys at a boarding school.In the novel, there are three dynmaic chracters: Gene Forrester, Elwin (Leper) Lepellier, and Phineas. Gene ends up accepting the realities of war, and grows and develops because of it…

The opening passage of “A Separate Peace” sets protagonist and first-person narrator Gene Forrester at the Devon school, the private prep-school in New Hampshire, that he graduated from fifteen years prior. Now in about his mid-30s, it is evident that since his time at Devon, Gene has undergone great change, recognizing the immense fear in his days at Devon that wasn’t clear to him the. Gene’s perspective and description of the school is evidence to that, now as an adult, he is now much wiser…

In the coming-of-age novel, A Separate Peace, Gene Forrester, at the Devon Boarding School, encounters these challenges when conflicts arise as a result from his friendship with Phineas, “Finny”. However, the intensifying pressures of external conflicts force Gene to grow even more than normal; since the story takes place throughout World War II, the conflict creates even more tension, stress, and necessity to develop in the novel. Throughout A Separate Peace, John Knowles conveys that in order…

Knowles touches upon this subtle relationship between truth and illusions in his book A Separate Peace. The book describes the fictional life-story of, Gene, a teenage boy, and the trials and tribulations he undergoes with his so-called friend, Phineas, at Devon, the academy they attend. Knowles heightens the tension between the various characters in the book, by setting the story in 1942, deep in World War II, with confusion and angers flaring even this far from the battlefield. While so far…

people, though students need to be aware of reality and societal situations. Keeping middle and high school students ignorant, by banning novels, is supposed to prevent prejudice and offense...but does it really help students? John Knowles' A Separate Peace is a highly debated book, whether or not to be included in school curriculums due to…

A Separate Peace: Betrayal A Separate Peace has many themes represented through the duration of the book. One of John Knowles most expressed themes is betrayal. Knowles does so through various literary devices and techniques. Knowles’ setting is a tremendous contributor to the betrayal between Gene and Phineas (Finny). While Gene Forrester is at Devon there is a numerous amount of foreshadowing being used. The war, the steps, and even the tree are examples of foreshadowing being…

Separate peace follows two young men who attend a private high school in New England during world war 2. The main character Gene, is a junior in a time where seniors are being trained to be shipped off for war. His best friend Phineas is a star athlete, while Gene is an above average student. Although the threat of war is always looming around, the boys at the Devon especially Finny and Gene, seem to be caught our in their own world completely separate from the war, hence A Separate Peace. Gene…