Descriptive Essay: A Separate Peace

From juvenility to maturity, A Separate Peace combines classic American Literature with a thoughtful plot-line that is developed to affect the readers’ mind and heart. The author, John Knowles of Fairmont, West Virginia, had one clear purpose for writing this book. This purpose was to show the disastrous mental and physical problems which arise as the result of war, specifically the repercussions they have on the home front. A good lesson to learn from this book is that even a war three-thousand miles away can have just as much ramification as a war three miles away. This novel shows the transition of Gene Forrester and his friends from boyhood to manhood during a

People frequently betray others because of the evil in their hearts. In A Separate Peace, John Knowles uses the pureness of the rakish Finny to portray the savage or bad side of the vulpine Gene. He also uses it to prove that peace is exceedingly difficult to acquire until a person accepts the ignorance in their own heart. That means that acceptance is the key to finding peace. Thus, Gene finds his peace when Finny forgives him and when Gene learns to forgive himself as well.

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“Yeah, but it will hit you in the process,” I replied and this made Erza’s right eye brow twitch.

“ What the heck was that?” I say with a bit of anger at the kid that was about to eat me.

I got back up to go eat something before going to sleep, so I went to the kitchen. I opened the fridge to find it empty. I went to the food boxes and got a cup of ramen. As I was warming them up, my cousin Devin came out of his

Separate Peace What really happened in the tree? Gene and Finny were very good friends; however, whatever happened in the tree the day the Finny "fell" out, is the actual cause of Gene “…My knees bent and I jounced the limb…” page 52. In fact, Finny did not fall out of the tree, but Gene had actually pushed him out. Gene had very good reasons to push him out “Finny had put him up to it, to finish me fro good on the exam.” Page 49. He pushed him out of jealousy for two things. For athleticism, and for his popularity, and also for his ability to talk his way out of anything.. First, Finny was a very athletic person; however, Gene is just a normal average day person. Gene couldn't stand

I tried to wiggle out of his grip and it works after a few seconds. I run out of the kitchen and upstairs to my room with tears streaming down my face.

“ WHAT?!? Only a day where has the time gone? Leave so I can prepared myself for the

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I took some sponges and a broom and when I opened the attic door it seems like it fesses up there so I want to sweep the floor with the broom and when I was done sweeping the floor I saw a big box so I opened it up and the old was a beautiful mask. I lifted the mask from the box and admired its beauty and I when it felt like a rock and when I was going to it down I saw something on the mask it was a sparkly shimmer inside of the mask so I slowly put the mask over my face. When i peered through the eyes of the mask i felt (happy, bad, mad, evil, silly, when i put the on i knew i had a power that i never had before and the power was that i can shoot lasers out of my hands and when

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At the beginning of the year I was both confused and excited about English class. From the first day I was intrigued. Now at first I wasn’t so flexible when it came to your way of teaching, but now I’ve become much more comfortable with it. The volume of work was frustrating because I had to read, annotate, and then be able to comprehend the material to a point where I could discuss it the next day. I had heard rumors that Mr. Strom assigned a ton of work and I was intimidated at first, but now I have realized that the amount of work is necessary to actively participate in the class.