War 's Relationship With People

Jealousy between friends that care for each other, but also can not stand each other because of jealousy. Genes athletic jealousy over Finny is the major turmoil in this novel. Genes also jealous, because Finny can jump out of the tree. “We will jump together, a double jump! neat,eh?.”

The war was not only happening in the real world, but also in the Devon School of Prep. The book A Separate Peace by John Knowles is mostly about a boy, Gene, who is receiving his education and learning about how to become a soldier to fight in the second World War. He and his best pal, Finny, are both being forced to mature and grow up before being drafted to fight, but before that even happens Gene’s jealousy gets the best of him which will threaten his friendship. Throughout the novel John Knowles uses a great deal of literary elements to help add imagery, thrill, and amusement to the story. Some of the elements include paradoxes, caricature, and theme.

Jealousy is someting that can cloud the minds of even the most smartest people.It can friends enemies and blur people's judgment and convince themselves of something that is false .throughout the book anger is a big motivator for the characters.

This elucidation can be broken down even further; whether the good and evil is an internal conflict within Gene, or using both Gene and Finny as symbols of good and evil. Again, both can be accurate depending on the way the audience looks at it. For example, Gene’s feelings apropos Finny were always conflicting. Moreover, he knew Finny was a good friend, but was still incessantly emulous in his thoughts and actions. He subconsciously made Finny fall, exhibiting the immoral part of him, and he, full of contrition, still visited him in the hospital, representing the ethical side. Also, Finny can be depicted as symbolic virtue; consequently, Gene delineates vice. Furthermore, Finny shows successive forgiveness, selflessness, courage and, honesty. Gene conveys continual invidiousness, repentance, and hatefulness. The story shows how they dispute, but it’s very subtle, as if the fight between good and evil would be a nugatory argument rather than a war.

Friendships are like those fragile glass ornaments that come out for Christmas. They’re beautiful, until someone does something to damage it. Gene and Finny’s friendship is the same. Its great, until Gene’s mind comes along to ruin it. His jealousy gets in the way of him being able to appreciate Finny’s friendliness towards him.

In the physical war and internal war alike, the first step is establishing the enemy. In World War 2, the enemies to the United States were Germany, Italy, and Japan. To Phineas, the enemy was the corruption of the world and reality. Gene’s enemy was his own head and the doubt inside it. Gene states at the end of the novel on page 204, “I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there. Only Phineas was never afraid, only Phineas never hated anyone.” Gene is reflecting back on his time at Devon during this part of the novel. He suggests that every person faces enemies at some point of their life, but in Gene’s case, he could be referring to two different enemies. The first could be Phineas, the person who always seemed the be “the better half” or his own internal demons. From how Knowles words this quote, he is implying that most people did not fight their enemy until the war, with real enemies. But, Gene expresses that what separated Finny was his inability to understand hatred and war. To him, there was no enemy and everyone deserved love and friendship. Although Finny’s innocence survived, ultimately it is suggested that his death was caused by his inability to cope with

According to the author, “envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide.” John Knowles wrote a book titled, “A Separate Peace” that is placed in New England during World War Two. Gene is one of the two main characters in the novel who others would describe as jealous. In “A Separate Peace” Knowles describes how Gene’s envy and imitation of Finny affect him (Gene), how Gene’s envy and imitation of Finny affect his relationship with Finny, and Gene gained his Peace. Gene’s envy and imitation of Finny affected Gene.

A Separate Peace, which was written by John Knowles, has many themes. They are interconnected throughout the book. The most clearly portrayed theme is fear. It seems to be connected with the themes of friendship, jealousy, and war. As World War II was occurring, fear had taken over Gene's life through these various themes. When he visited Devon fifteen years after leaving the school, Gene claimed, "I had lived in fear while attending the school and I can now feel fear's echo" (Knowles 10). He felt like he had gained a separate peace after escaping from this fear.

War is a human endeavor. Humanity continually pursues solutions to counter evolving threats with the end of preserving power while also enabling peace. Civilizations resort to war to maintain their perception of this equilibrium. Defined threats and adversaries have changed throughout history, however, the essence of human nature and the base concept of conflict itself have not. Carl von Clausewitz’s theories on warfare capture the relationship between humanity and its application of war, remaining relevant in today’s era through their pensive explanations of timeless philosophical principles regarding the concept of war. These theories regarding war in politics, the key factors affecting war, and the extent that war is applied are inherently interconnected, providing insight on the relationships between humanity and its application of war.

“The Tragedy of war is that it uses man’s best to do man’s worst” wise words from Henry Fosdick. When it comes down to the time where an individual hits rock bottom, a man either do its best or do its worst. Although, Man can do its best and do its worst at the same time. There are many reasons how man’s best can result to man’s worst. Henry Fosdick statement is both true and false.

Most poets use their unique gift of writing poetry to relieve stress or just to document their emotions towards a given subject. Others use it as a key to bring about social change and voice their opinion on modern events. This is the case in Stephen Crane’s War Is Kind. The speaker in the poem uses irony as a strategy to convince the reader of the harsh reality of war.

I chose this piece of art because it shows how war impacts innocent people.I think the artist was trying to say that children are innocent and war is destroying the world our children are living in. In the picture it shows a young girl who I think was draw to look very innocent to express that all our children are innocent and to make the viewer feel sympathetic. She is smelling a rose, but underneath is a grenade. Her finger is in the loop hole that activates the grenade which could easily result in her dying. To have a innocent child die accidentally is a terrible thing. I chose this piece of art because it shows how war impacts innocent

When asked how he felt about the deaths of 9 /11, Pablo Sequera , a 22 year old US army soldier in Iraq said "I wanted to bomb the fuck out of every single one of them towel heads". Now fighting in Iraq he says he has grown more sympathy and understanding toward Middle Eastern people. "Actually being up close, watching how they live every day in violence, has given me even more ambition to help them gain freedom" said Sequera. War will always change a person whether it's physically or mentally, a soldier never leaves the way he came in. The smells of gunfire, the loud ping of bullets bouncing off of metal, the vibrations of grenades exploding nearby, and the taste of their own fear climbing up into their throat will always remain close to

War is strongly ingrained into our world today whether we like it or not and while it may seem more prevalent and worse lately considering the advances in technology and the increase in hysteria over security, war is not a recent adjunct to society. That poses the question, where does war come from? As human beings, are we hard-wired biologically to fight each other or is it a behaviour influenced by peers and morals?

In the time period of last ten years, many changes have been observed in the nature of Warfare from being aggressive towards more argumentative. There are various views and debates among the nature and character of the wars and the debate continues to grow with time. The several reasons of changes can be attributed to the technological advances and other situational changes. This essay is going to shed light upon whether the nature and character of war has been changed in the course of recent years or it continues to be the same as it was years ago.