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According to HG Wells, “If we don't end war, war will end us” (Things to Come). In A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, the main character Gene struggles with the wars around him. Gene struggles at Devon, an all boys preparatory school during the World War II era. At Devon, Gene faces the struggle of finding peace and many conflicts throughout the story along with the other boys, Brinker Hadley a natural born leader, Phineas his sporty best friend, and Quackenbush a dislikeable crew team captain.…

novel is told by Gene Forrester, and at a certain points of the novel, Knowles asks the audience to question his reliability as a narrator. Gene’s friend, Phineas, plays a large role in the novel because Gene is jealous of Finny for many reasons, one including Finny’s marvelous athleticism. This jealousy leads to some anger as time passes. Eventually, these harsh feelings lead to Gene’s dishonesty with the readers. John Knowles illustrates the complexity of friendship through Gene’s…

A Separate Peace by John Knowles, is a non-fiction novel about kids in New England during world war II. The book focusses on showcasing these kids’ childhood and the experiences they encounter together. The setting of the novel helps reveal the character of Finny, by showing him beat the school’s swimming record, by showing him and Gene jump off the tree limb, and even the war has an effect on Finny’s character. When Knowles tells the reader about how Finny beat the school’s swimming record…

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The novelette "Flowers for Algernon", and the movie Charly, both recount of a man named Charlie Gordon, who struggles with a mental disability. This young man later experiences a procedure that is intended to increase his knowledge. He later discovers that this procedure's effects are only temporary. Although "Flowers for Algernon" and Charly are similar in conflict, they greatly differ in their characters and setting. To begin with, the conflict between "Flowers for Algernon" and Charly is…

A Separate Peace, written by John Knowles, is a creative fiction that has viewers thinking outside the box and suspenseful feelings about what going to happen next. A Separate Peace is about Gene, the main character, coming of age and identifying who he is with the help of his friend, Phineas (Finny). Before he matures and identity who he is, he goes through this stage of depending on Finny to help him find himself. Not only does Gene depend on Finny, but Finny start depending on Gene after he…

“Envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide” (Emerson 370). A Separate Peace written by John Knowles is set in a boarding school, Devon, in New England. Gene, about five-feet nine inches, weighing about 150 pounds, was a student at Devon school and was very gullible to others. In A Separate Peace, Gene has envy of Finny and imitates him which affects him and their relationship, but in the end he gains his inner peace. To begin with, Gene’s envy and imitation of Finny affects him throughout…

solid and deeply meaningful world around me.¨ (Knowles 186) In a book the book A Separate Peace by John Knowles two boys Gene and Finny are supposed best friends, but there is a rivalry that lies between them. As the book goes on Gene expresses his feelings of identity and jealousy within himself and towards Finny. The book setting is right at the beginning of WWII. Along with the physical war taking place, there is a war between these two boys. John Knowles uses universal themes such as…

The ability to sustain relationships and adapt to society often depends on a person’s perspective, personality, and motivations. In the novel A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, the main characters are Gene Forester and Phineas. Knowles portrays Finny as the light to Gene’s dark side, the yin to his yang. Knowles creation of characters with opposing personalities helps to further develop the novel. The most prominent character in A Separate Peace is Gene Forrester. In the novel, Gene is grown up…

Throughout A Separate Peace, Knowles uses juxtaposition to develop the characters of Gene and Phineas, also known as Finny. They are always with each other, and Gene even juxtaposes himself against Finny multiple times in the book. Consequently, these contrasts between them help establish their character; who they really are. One example of juxtaposition would be how Gene and Finny performed in school. Each of the boys had something they excelled at. For Finny, it was athletics; for Gene is…