Analysis Of The Novel 'A Separate Peace'

A Separate Peace by John Knowles is a fictional novel. The story is about 2 boys that went to Devon high school during World War 2. The war gradually encroaches upon and finally dominates life at Devon and it is shown through the views, attitudes, and beliefs of Gene and Finny.

The fictional novel, A Separate Peace was written by John Knowles describes the life at Devon School during WWII. The novel follows two young boys, Gene and Phineas, as they face hardships and struggles throughout their life at Devon during the war. The war dominated life at Devon by creating tough decisions, causing students to act upon a life altering decision, and essentially create a war among each other.

In the novel, A Separate Peace, John Knowles wrote about two boys that had anunforgettable friendship. The boys names were Gene and Finny, they both went to Devon schooland met in the same room. Gene, was hardworking, insecure, and proud; however, Finny isathletic, charming, and earnest. Yet, the two boys became friends the second they met. The boysshowed they had a friendship because of how they acted towards each other, Finny would alwayspush Gene, Gene hurt Finny, and they would always argue.First, Finny would always push Gene to do things he would not do. Gene liked schoolwhere as Finny liked sports. So, Finny wanted Gene to get into sports and he pushed him to getinto it. He shows he does this when Gene first moved to Devon, Finny gets Gene to playBlitzball.

People can learn a lot from others. Through individuals interacting with each other, they can learn and fully understand one another. They can different views on philosophy and certain situations. In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, one of the protagonists, Gene, fully finds himself by his relationship with Finny.

Winter – Winter in Devon symbolized the consequences of the fun times during the summer. The weather was colder, the trees were bare of leaves, and Gene has a newer, darker secret. Phineas gets injured severely – twice. Leper enlists and everyone else was making Leper sound brave and heroic for enlisting so abruptly, but they find out a couple of weeks after he enlists that he had “escaped” because he had gone “psycho”.

In the novel A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, it is evident that Gene purposely jounced the limb so Phineas would fall off. Before the incident occurred, Gene thinks, “Finny had deliberately set out to wreck my studies” (53). Gene thought that he and Phineas had a rivalry going on when they decide to go to the tree. He seems to envy Finny about how good of an athlete and how good of a person he is and he thinks that Finny envies him for his academics. During the incident, Gene describes how he “Holding firmly to the trunk, I took a step toward him, and then my knees bent and I jounced the limb” (60). Gene describes how he purposely jounced the limb to make Phineas fall. Later, when Gene visits Finny in the hospital, he feels guilty that he

The novel Separate Peace written by John Knowles shows a friendship between two boys who attend Devon School, in New Hampshire, named Finny and Gene. Finny and Gene meet through attending Devon School, and are roommates there. They have quite a complicated friendship. Gene is a boy who didn’t break rules, not into sports very much, always aced his tests, and all around an extremely smart guy. Finny on the other hand was rebellious, daredevil, very athletic, plays by his own rules kind-of-guy.

A Separate Peace is a World War II setting book written by the author, John Knowles. A Separate Peace is an example of a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age  novel. One of the main characters, Gene Forrester, is a perfect example of someone who is coming-of-age. As the  novel progresses, Gene  is transformed and impacted by many different experiences during his time at Devon High School.  In the book, A Separate Peace, Gene  becomes mature from his experiences from Finny’s death and Training for the Olympics; He also loses his innocence, and this teaches the reader about growing up and the idea of losing innocence.

When comparing A Separate Peace novel and movie, there are many evident differences that can be seen. Many people would expect the novel and the movie to be the same experience but they are wrong. In the novel there are some important scenes and events that are different or missing in the movie. When the book is read we have an idea of how the characters look and sound like, and they are mostly good ideas. But when the movie is seen most of those ideas are destroyed.

In the fictional novel, A Separate Peace, by John Knowles,the writer describes how the war slowly became the most important thing at Devon School. Throughout the book several aspects change the characters’ way of life, but the main aspect is war. The war gradually dominates life at Devon in ways such as through character, actions, and thoughts.

In the story called A Separate Peace by John Knowles, a boy called Gene caused the accident of his best friend because of jealousy. Later in the story, Gene starts to feel guilt because he made the life of his friend complicated. Is friend called Phineas, isn’t able to enjoy things that he likes because his best friend caused the fracture of his leg, but he doesn’t know that he isn’t able to enjoy the things that he likes because of Gene. Later in the story, Gene tells Finny that what happened to him is his Gene’s fault. Finny doesn’t blame his friend, and forgives him, but later in the story, he fell down the stairs were him and all of his friends were being interrogated by Brinker to find out if Gene was guilty of what happened to Finny.

The novel A Separate Peace focuses mainly around a 17 year old named Gene Forrester and his psychological development. The story is set in a boys boarding school in USA during World War II. There are four main boys in the novel and they all undergo major character changes through the story. One of them goes crazy, and the others experience severe attitude changes. Gene is caught right in the center of these changes. He is very close with all of the other three boys, and thus all of the changes affect him very much. Due to all the tension occurring in this novel because of the war and events going on at the school, there is a lot of denial of truth happening. Three of the four boys

In the novel, “A Separate Peace” by John Knowles, the seasons develop actions and characters in the story. The story takes place at an all-boys boarding school in New Hampshire during World War II based off of the author’s previous experiences at a boarding school. The two main characters, Finny and Gene, experience character development alongside different seasons. In written works, seasons are commonly used to symbolically represent a change in the character’s personalities. The nature or setting of the story is used to specifically evolve Finny and Gene in seasons such as the summer, autumn, and winter. Each season change also generates an entirely different mood.

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.

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.