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Summary Of John Knowles 'A Separate Peace'

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A shocking, but often true thing people do is betray others, because of evil in their hearts. An example of this is found in “A Separate Peace” by John Knowles. In this story the character Gene Forrester goes through many struggles to achieve and maintain a separate peace until he visits Devon 15 years later. Gene becomes best friends with Finny at the Devon School in New Hampshire. Through the Summer Session Gene and Finny as they start to do more things together and Gene starts to become jealous of Finny. It then leads him to the conclusion that Finny was trying to sabotage him. Eventually Gene starts to have hatred towards Finny and it leads to him jouncing the tree limb and making Finny fall out of the tree. Anger and evil that one develops

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