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Character Analysis of A Separate Peace John Knowles presents three young significant characters who are facing adolescence during the war time in the book A Separate Peace. They are boys who are forced to feel the fears of World War II, and the reality of they will be in grave danger when they will be drafted into service; they just want to be able to get that last piece of peace in their lives. These boys are, Finny who is an innocent limp, Leper who is a mentally maimed craze, and Gene who is the

Summer Reading Assignment In the story A Separate Peace Gene and Phineas are best friends, although they were two different types of people. Gene was on the top of his class when it came to his studies, while Phineas was on the bottom. However, when it came to sports Phineas was at top of the class while Gene was mediocre. Whenever there was something that Phineas wanted to do, he expected Gene to drop everything, even his studies, and follow Phineas. The result of Phineas’ shenanigans caused

The book A Separate Peace by John Knowls, depicts Gene, a sixteen year old boy that likes to be competitive with his best friend Phineas. While reading the book I realized that Gene and I had something in common. We seemed to share a constant and never ending goal of being competitive with our friends. It is clear however, that Gene may take the attribute of competitivity a little too far. When Gene lets his competitivity get the best of him, he causes Phineas to fall out of a tree and shatter

In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, Gene the main character and narrator’s sense of jealousy and competition causes him to isolate himself which eventually ended in Finny’s quietus. He pushed away Phineas, his only real friend, because he could not accept the fact that sometimes Finny is generally superior to him. “He probably thought anything you were good at came without effort. He didn’t know yet that he was unique” (Knowles 58). Pushing Finny away caused him to emotionally detach himself from

A Separate Peace A Separate Peace by the Author John Knowles discusses a character named Gene Forrester, who returns to his old High School. The novel is written in retrospect as Gene relives his past, remembering how close he and his best friend, Finny, were before Gene killed him. At the end of the novel, Gene says, “my war ended before I even put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school. I killed my enemy there.” An essay in Time Magazine about A Separate Peace states, “...one

Compare and Control of Gene Forrester and Phineas It is not uncommon for two people with opposite personalities to become good friends. This is the case of Gene Forrester and Phineas, the two main characters of John Knowles’ short story Phineas and his novel A Separate Peace. The young men became instant friends upon meeting in their dorm at Devon School’s first summer session. First, although the two characters were very much alike they also had their differences for sure. Phineas and Genes

Out of all the characters of A Separate Peace by John Knowles, I would be Elwin Lepellier or who is more commonly known as Leper for several reasons. One reason is that we’re both artistic. For example, during Chapel, Leper was busy sketching birds and trees, and thus, he didn’t hear the announcement for wanted volunteers to shovel the snow out of the railroads. Similarly, I enjoy sketching or drawing in my free time or when I’m bored. Another reason for why Leper and I are similar is that we’re

The novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles is about a boy who struggles with finding his identity. Throughout the novel more about the character, Gene is learned. The story shows a new perspective of the wars many people have going on inside. In the beginning of the novel, Gene Forrester is returning to his old school Devon School, he is remembering what he did fifteen years before in the middle of World War II. Gene is a very smart young man who wishes to be valedictorian of his grade at Devon

The relationship between Finny and Gene in John Knowles’s novel A Separate Peace demonstrates how a defense mechanism can be both good and bad. In the novel, Gene is a character with a strong defense mechanism. He is a character who is both careful with himself and suspicious of others. This is seen through his interactions with Finny. Finny is a character who doesn’t feel the need for strong defense mechanisms. He is carefree, naive, and able to see the best in people in a way that Gene has to learn

Undoubtedly one of the most popular stories of the 21st century was Harry Potter, a series in which readers follow the life of a twelve year old boy who learns that he is magical. Throughout the novels aspects of magic are blended into the real world, portrayed by the setting Great Britain, which contains a large proportion of non-magical people, referred to as muggles. The way the author, J.K Rowling, set the book up and blended these two aspects, magic and realism, is analogous to the way John