Does The Security Sector Lead To Sustainable Peace?

Betrayal, one of the most horrible things you could do to anyone your family, a friend anyone. To me it’s one of my all time most hated things a person could do and it’s almost unforgivable. In this book A Separate Peace by John Knowles two boys Phineas and Gene who are best friends at a boarding school in New Hampshire experience some of the worst kinds of Betrayal you could think of. Gene commits a very bad betrayal when he jousts the tree limb they are both standing on ending up with Finny falling and badly breaking his leg. This was no accident because Gene can’t stand the guilt.

As Carl Jung once stated, “Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious”. To reach a peaceful reconciliation, one must learn to embrace two distinct elements of their personality, the "Persona" and "Shadow." Likewise, in the bildungsroman, A Separate Peace, author John Knowles depicts the common rivalry between young adolescents, and how they struggle to accept their identity and the relationship between their unconscious self. Gene, a Devon High student, becomes best friends with Finny and grows jealous of his ostensibly flawless friend, causing him to make a life-changing decision. His struggles to reach an inner balance between his “Persona” and “Shadow” lead to the ultimate death of Finny. Gene’s transformation involves the changes of his mask and “Shadow”—from guilt and jealousy to pride and tolerance—which results in the later acceptance of the light and dark parts of himself, allowing him to truly reach adulthood and a state of peace.

Life can be viewed as a battle field, a constant fight between good and evil. In Leif Enger's Peace Like a River, this scenario was well depicted. In the novel, there was a constant fight taking place between the good and evil characters, and though based around family, love, and brotherhood, the novel mainly focused on the conflict between these characters.

There are many different themes that make up the novel a separate peace, but some that stand out are friendship, loyalty, and jealousy. some examples of those three themes are when finny broke the swimming record and told gene not to tell anyone, it shows loyalty because gene listened to finny and didn't tell anyone about him breaking the record and it also shows friendship, it hints to jealousy though because throughout the story gene thinks that finny is trying to look like he is better than him at sports and it shows that gene is jealous.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is known as a mental illness that is suffered commonly by many soldiers after the traumatizing events of war. Within the troubling illness, not only does it affect the mindset of the person dealing with the disorder, it also affects the family and friends of the person suffering. In the book “A Separate Peace” written by John Knowles, a character known as Elwin Lepellier suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conclusion that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide” (Emerson 370). John Knowles’ A Separate Peace, perfectly shows the results of envy and imitation at a boys’ preparatory school, Devon, in 1943. The novel’s narrator and protagonist, Gene Forester, tells his story as a flashback of his days at the Devon School. He is first known for his academic skills and following of the rules, but later allows his insecurities and jealously drive him to make transgressions that will follow him for the rest of his life. A Separate Peace perfectly shows the results of how envy and imitation affect Gene, his relationship with Finny, and Gene’s achievement of peace.

Peace is very complex. It could happen when your young, or when your older and more experienced. Peace can come from bright times or dark time, such as death. In the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles Gene finds peace in a very odd way. He has a quite “separate peace” from everyone else. Staring off as one piece, braking off into a separate piece, and finally finding a separate peace, Gene discovers he is himself, and not Finny.

What do you consider a good friend? Is it a person who always looks for your best interest, someone who wants to see you succeed, or how about someone who helps you to reach your goals in life? In the book A Separate Peace written by John Knowles, Gene and Finny appear to be friends. As the story follows them going through another school year, the characters show traits and actions that reveal unhealthy characteristics of a good friend: jealousy, mistrusting, and distracting. This negatively affects their relationship. Gene is clearly better off without Finny in his life.

World Connection Question: Would you risk your relationship with your best friend in order to further your own self interests? I would not risk my relationship with my best friend to further my own self interests because in a true friendship, I would care about my best friend’s interests no less than my own. Unlike in A Separate Peace, I would not purposefully hurt my relationship with my best friend in order to benefit myself. Gene says, “Finny had deliberately set out to wreck my studies”(Knowles 53).

Alexander B. Downes, “Regime Change Doesn’t Work.” Boston Review. Date Published Sep. 1, 2011. Date Accessed 5/18/16. Web.

Historical events can play an important role in a person's life.  In A Separate Peace, the whole atmosphere at the Devon School changed as World War II progressed.  The boys either eagerly awaited the draft, enlisted in the area of war they wanted, or did not want to go at all.  The students at the school created new activities for enjoyment since the customary past times could not be played due to a lack of materials.  When a friend "returns" from the war, the boys at Devon got a real sense of what the war was like.  The boys learned that going to war was not all fun and games like they had anticipated.  The influence World War II had on the characters in A

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