A Separate Peace: Contrasting Gene and Phineas and the Struggle for Po

believes that he is better than everyone else in that he alone can destroy evil.

Phineas P. Gage was born in 1823. He was a railroad construction worker outside a small town of Cavendish, Vermont. On September 13, 1848, Phineas suffered from a traumatic brain injury, which caused severe damage to parts of his frontal brain due to his accident at work.

things that others do not see. He possesses a deeper wisdom of what is important and

his mind for anything or anyone, which prevents him from being able to know how

vastness of life and he realizes that god is there to look after him and help him handle his

* It is that he is so free and he does whatever he wants to do and everyone likes to help him because he tells a lot of stories. The stories are what people like to hear about.

strives to answer in most of his books: What has life come to mean and

He knows that in the end that everything happens for a reason and manages to stay positive. He has courage to stick with the trials and that realize that everything happens for a

In the book A Separate Peace, Gene and Phineas are the two main characters, the book being told through Gene’s eyes. Gene suffers from jealousy along with admiration towards Phineas, while Phineas was innocent up until his fall.

John Knowles’ A Separate Peace introduces to readers an extremely interesting character: Phineas. The narrator, Gene, never tells us his last name, and refers to him as merely Phineas or Finny. This simple name refers to a simple yet beautiful person, whose one-of-a-kind personality speaks for itself. His spontaneous style of play attracts his fellow peers around him, and his humorous honesty charms the Devon teachers. Phineas’ florescent personality very much sets him apart from ¬¬the other characters in the book, and his unified nature stands out to all.

not being human. He says that "the only thing that can keep you human is to not

that he wants to maintain the peace of his physical realm as well as people's mind. He command to

contexts of time and place, and he is observable. At the same time and because of his faith or through it, he is or claims to be in touch with another world transcending this. The duality of this position some would say is the greatness and some the very meaning of human life: the heart of its

He puts himself as an equal to some of the greatest literature artists in history before he has even began his work in earnest. He also scoffs at sinners, showing arrogance and that he is more worthy in God’s eyes then them. He also chooses himself to go on this journey, among the entire world population. And in his own

It would seem that he views other people as closer to God, not simply because of his own isolation, but because he witnesses their apparent ability to function in a world of God. This is seen on his act of acquiring a sense of morality through observation of behaviors of others