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    A Separate Peace, Prompt seven A Separate Peace by John Knowles is a story told from the viewpoint of an older Gene Forrester as he reminisces on the past as he visits his old schoolhouse in Devon. Starting in the summer of 1942, he reflects on how fearful he was during the days of WW2 and how Devon is a close reminder of those days. He walks on the street through the schoolhouse, gymnasium, dormitories, and tennis courts, finally arriving at the river where he and his best friend Phineas, also…

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    A Separate Peace is a coming of age novel by John Knowles and was originally published in 1960 by Macmillan Publishing in New York, New York. The novel is set in the 1940s at an all boy's preparatory school in New Hampshire. It tells the story of two friends, Gene and Phineas, as their lives begin to change while forming into men. The story begins in summer of 1942 at the Devon school, where we meet the procrastinator, Gene Forrester, and his wild roommate Phineas, or as everyone calls him,…

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    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…

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    In 1959, John Knowles authored a novel named A Separate Peace. Knowles writes about a student, Gene, and his relations with his best friend, Finny, an athletic superstar. They had both attended a boarding school, named Devon, in 1942 the height of World War II. Throughout his novel, Knowles incorporates many themes. One of the themes in Knowles’ novel, A Separate Peace, is that when someone believes that s/he is engaged in a personal battle against, another person, s/he is not at peace.…

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    he Future is determined by one’s action in the present, So when given a chance to look at the future, people will want to come back to the present, and change their actions for a better future. In the novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Scrooge, the main character, is a wicked and grumpy man to start with. As four ghost visits him, with the ghost of future as the most influential, Scrooge becomes a caring, joyful man. While the all the ghosts are important in the development of…

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    Princeton High School vs. Devon School A school is defined as an institution dedicated the education of children. John Knowles’ coming-of-age novel, A Separate Peace, brought to life the characters Gene and Phineas. The two boys are attending a preparatory school located in New Hampshire at the time of World War II. Knowles’ fictional school set years ago is unlike public school in the modern age. Princeton High School is a public school located in Princeton, Minnesota. It is interesting to…

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    Thud! Gene looks down and sees a body just laying there with no move. Gene Forrester is the protagonist of the novel “A Separate Peace” by John Knowles and has some conflict just as he’s getting comfortable in his new school, Devon. Elwin (Leper) Lepellier is a minor character who is known as the social outcast of the school. Throughout the book, Gene and Phineas (Finny) become best friends and their friendship takes its toll on each of them. Due to the main conflict of the story, Gene’s…

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    Maya Patel Kerby English 5 15 October 2015 Friendship in A Separate Peace The novel by John Knowles, ASeparate Peace shows 2 young boys that go through many problems in their friendship. Their friendship goes thorough many things such as jealousy, identity, war, and competition. In the novel, John Knowles uses imagery, irony, and suspense to show the friendship of two sixteen year olds. First, Knowles uses imagery to show the oddly friendship Gene and Finny have at the beginning. “What was I…

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    Friendship is the core of what bonds and makes new relationships between people. Throughout A Separate Peace, John Knowles displays both the struggles and the special moments of having a true friendship. The main characters, Gene and Finny grow up despite their differences in personalities and opinions. This leading to some mishaps and misunderstandings. Friendship is needed in everyday life, however, it can also cause chaos between friends. From the very beginning, Knowles shows how friendship…

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    In reality, how often will somebody encounter a situation where everything worked out exactly how they expected it to? In John Irving’s novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany, the main character, Johnny Wheelwright, references a quote from Thomas Hardy that answers this question: “Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently”. To put it another way, this quote implies that in actuality, things will not usually work out how someone might initially expect it to. The reader can see this motif…

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