The Devon School

Separate Peace, the protagonist, Gene Forrester, and his best friend, Finny, grow from a great friendship to a full out rivalry. Can a friendship be a rivalry? Gene and Finny had started off great in the beginning of the novel. When Gene came to Devon, Finny and his fellow friends accepted him and took him under his wing. For instance, all the boys

A Separate Peace (Chapter 1) is a novel excerpt written by John Knowles. Jean is a student at the Devon School in which he makes acquaintance with Phineas, or Finny. The two take on a jump from a tree in which they become friends afterwards. Knowles uses the concept of opposites attract and then drive each other crazy to drive the plot. At first the two make acquaintance well, only to the sheer differences between them to force a split. Gene and Finny are polar opposites in the sense that Gene is

When I went in Junior High, I was friend with a girl who would self-harm herself. At first, I only noticed one or two cuts on her wrist, but I realized that as the school year progressed, the number of cuts doubled, then tripled, then quadrupled, until I could not keep count anymore. As her hatred toward her imperfections grew, her scars became more visible, and it was harder for her to hide them. Similar to my friend’s situation, in the novel A Separate Peace, John Knowles uses similes to express

Gene Forrester and Todd Anderson seem to have come from the same mind when being created because the similarities and differences between them are remarkable and poses the question what made their writers create them to be the way that they are. In the book, A Separate Peace, and the movie, Dead Poets Society, these two boys were prime characters and critical to the plots of both forms of media. Although Gene Forrester from A Separate Peace Todd Anderson from Dead Poets Society are similar because

different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state. In A Separate Peace, the author John Knowles uses a variety of examples of war and peace. The book is a flashback of a kid that went to the Devon school during World War 1. The students were safe in the school until they are 18 then they would have the chance to enlist or get drafted. In the novel John Knowles illustrates that war and peace can keep people safe or cause tragedy in people's lives. Some literary devices that

very descriptive and uses powerful words to trigger the five scenes while reading that Gene and Finny have a blast at the beach. The second scene to use imagery was when Gene visited Devon fifteen years later. There is a large use of descriptive words to make it seems that the reader would be with him at the school. There are heaps of other scenes where the author uses imagery, but these attracted the most attention. The final literary device used is mood. The first scene to use it was Finny’s

paranoid about this. Gene did not find inner peace by the end of the novel because he revisits the school, thinks Finny is out to get him and doesn’t cry when he finds out Finny died. It is apparent Gene did not find separate peace by the end of the novel because he revisits the school. He clearly revisits the school when he said this “ I went back to the Devon School not long ago”(1). He went back to the school

Peace by John Knowles is a clear coming-of-age novel. It explores patriotism, psychology, and the dilution of innocence. As World War II is an immediate background theme in the story, it causes the main characters to change throughout the story. The school year and the war progressed simultaneously. The characters experience tension and anxiety in the face of the approaching war. The characters react and respond to these emotions differently, thus provoking different outcomes and actions of each person

“I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there” (Knowles 122). The novel “A Separate Peace” by John Knowles takes place at Devon High School, 1942. Knowles describes a friendship based off of ignorance, jealousy, and envy. Gene Forrester a sixteen year old who’s characterized as being intellectual, completive, and conformative. John Knowles depicts how Gene’s envy towards Finny affects their friendship and gain peace within himself. Gene's envy and imitation of Finny affects

Admiration is perceived as having a high amount of veneration, respect, and regard usually for another person. Although this is a very positive aspect of a person, too much admiration can result in jealousy. In A Separate Peace, Gene admires Finny deeply, which causes many controversies within their friendship since Gene becomes blatantly jealous of Finny. John Knowles uses characterization of Gene Forrester to portray how he becomes jealous of Finny which brings forth the theme that in a close friendship