Deerfield Academy

It’s Jake and Lydia’s first time to go outside in the wilderness and see all of the beautiful nature out there. They don’t know what they're going to expect out there and there can be very dangerous plants or animals there. They have never ever seen any kind of animal in there whole life except the talking ape. Their parents let them go explore outside even though that might be the last time there going to see them. Jake and Lydia are very excited to go out and see different things. When they go…

Garth Brooks always said “just keep taking chances and have fun” which is how he built and lived his music career. Through Books many trials and tribulations as a country music artist, his personal and musical mistakes and accomplishments have made him the acclaimed musician he is today that has influenced many current country artists. He has worked amazingly hard to succeed in the music world. He is especially proud of all the awards he has received over the years. Brooks truly loves…

"The Shawshank Redemption" starts off with the familiar brutality of a prison movie. Convicted in the late 1940s for the murder of his wife and her lover, banker Tim Robbins is thrown into the slammer (the Shawshank penitentiary in Maine) for two consecutive life sentences. Seasoned inmate Morgan Freeman—the narrator in this story—watches as the soft-spoken, vulnerable prisoner undergoes the inevitable gang rape. Prison, Freeman tells the audience in that inimitably authoritative voice, "is no…

Have you ever wondered what it was like to be a true genius? Good Will Hunting is a movie about just that: a young boy who has experienced a less than satisfactory upbringing, but through reading informational books at a public library in his youth and through having a photographic memory that allows him to remember everything he reads has resulted in him becoming very intelligent. It is shown just how intelligent he is when he solves a proof that is written on a chalkboard at Harvard University…

In the Literary Criticism “Counterpoint”, by James M. Mellard, the critic analyzes the juxtaposition between components in the novel, A Separate Peace, by John Knowles. Mellard strongly suggests to his readers how Knowles uses “counterpoint in character development, symbolism, plot and structure” (Mellard 56), which brings forth the ultimate question of how does counterpoint support A Separate Peace’s “ultimate theme” (56). The fundamental answer to this proposed question, in the eyes of…

The movie Shawshank Redemption is a film that was about a banker named Andy Dufresne who was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for murdering his beloved wife and her lover. He knows that he did not commit the crimes, he was being accused of something he did not do. While his stay at prison, he made some friends and lives through the harsh life in prison. This movie has shown what he went through. It shows his difficulties and experiences throughout his many years of confinement in…

In the novel “A Separate Peace” Gene is both the narrator and the protagonist. In this novel Gene tells the story from his perspective. Gene isn't a really nice person he doesn't have any really good qualities. He’s kind of crazy and he's very paranoid. He's also not a very good friend. At one point Gene admires Phineas who happens to be his roommate and self proclaimed best friend. Gene has to work hard for everything and one of the many reasons he's jealous of Finny is because he's great at…

How can anyone really tell the difference between a friend and an enemy? John Knowles wrote a unique book on how friends can become some of the biggest enemies. A Separate Peace’s main characters, Gene and Finny become friends after Gene starts attending Devon. They go through trials in their friendship, one of the trials happens when Gene jumps on the tree branch, by the lake at Devon, and Finny falls off, which breaks his leg, ruining his main love, sports, and his chances of going into the…

The book, A Separate Peace by John Knowles, is a fiction book based at a New England private boarding school for high school boys in the year of 1942. This book covers the up and down roller coaster of a relationship between Phineas, also known as Finny, and his best friend Gene. The two boys became best friends after one day in the summer session when they jumped out of a tree used to train boys for their physical expectations of the military. World War II has begun and all of America has felt…

Set during the infamous World War II, A Separate Peace by John Knowles, unfolds into a story of a growing rivalry between two close friends. English Devon High School students, Gene Forrester and Phineas, are the best of friends, with the perfect balance of athletics and academics. However, Gene’s enmity towards Phineas drives him to have the ideal image of competing to become the top student at Devon. However, ultimately, when the two friends decide to jump off of a limb and into a river, Gene…