Trevor Phillips

Did you know the first sport played in the Americas was lacrosse? The game of lacrosse can be considered as the oldest sport in the Americas. The sport of lacrosse has been around since the Native Americans freely roamed the Americas. The sport was not always just for fun, it also had spiritual and traditional aspects to it. The Indians believed that lacrosse was the “Creator’s Game”. The game was often played to resolve conflicts, heal the sick, and develop stronger men for battle. The…

depression really is,” says AJ Willard, a sophomore at Phillips Exeter Academy, who suffers from depression. “I really wouldn’t wish it on anyone.” The romanticization is not only harmful to those genuinely suffering from depression, but also to those who aren’t. “[It] prevented me from understanding what depression really was until I personally met and got to know people with depression,” says Hanna Pak, a neurotypical sophomore at Phillips Exeter…

What side, emotions or actions? The book A Separate Peace by well known Yale graduate John Knowles is about two boys, Gene and Finny, and their life outside the war at a boarding school called Devon. The boys are best friends also loosely based of of John Knowles experience at a boarding school, and an accident happens in which Finny's fall from the tree and Gene's fall from innocence can be traced to unresolved tensions. Tensions created by the mixed feeling of envy and admiration in which Gene…

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…

¨I felt that I was not, never had been, and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly 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…

Some people think jealousy is healthy between friends, but others say too much jealousy causes problems. In A Separate Peace, Gene is jealous of his friend Finny’s charm and charisma. John Knowles portrays Gene as a jealous character through his actions and thoughts. Knowles depicts Gene as a jealous character through his thoughts. Gene has always seen Finny as competition until he realizes “that there was and never could have been any rivalry between us” (Knowles 59). Gene has always had envy…

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…

A diary is often used as an outlet for people to write their thoughts and feelings. Irving potrays Owen as a highly religious person. This is evident when Owen received his diary from Harriet Wheelwright as a Christmas gift and he began to write in it with his entries mentioning God. After Owen’s death, John would read Owen’s diary and in one particular entry written on New Year’s day during John and Owen’s senior year at the Gravesend Academy. Owen was writing about how “[He] wish [he] knew how…