A Separate Peace is the story of two young men, Gene and Phineas, taking their first steps into adulthood during the beginning of World War II. ... "The novel is about a young man's struggle to achieve and maintain a separate peace." ... Although his athletic ability shines and is proven to be greater than anyone in the school's, he is a poor student. ... Gene refuses to believe that Phineas genuinely wants to be friends, stating he had many reasons to try to pull him away from his studies so that he would be no better in studies than the rest of the students, returning the spotl...

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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout A Separate Peace, it's most recognizable familiarity was that the main character, Gene Forrester, followed an intellectual odyssey that foreshadowed the Hero Journey archetypal pattern. ... Thus, due to Gene Forrester's succession of his intellectual odyssey, A Separate Peace had a high applicabilty of the Hero Journey archetype. With knowledge of Joseph Campbell's form and ideas of the Hero Journey archetype, there was a clear appliance of it to Gene's intellectual odyssey in A Separate Peace. ... For Gene specifically, why would he need to worry? ... The retu...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the book A Separate Peace by John Knowles, Gene and Finny are two high school boys that develop a particular relationship. ... I used the Post Office in town for my return address. ... Why do you think I kept saying there wasn't any war all winter?... Gene did not trust in the authenticity of Finny's friendship. ... Gene and Finny did not feel any of these, therefore, they did not have an authentic friendship....

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• Grade Level: High School

Some might say that the existence of a soul is what separates us from animals. ... It was not until I went off to boarding school did I begin to question some of my core values. While I certainly challenged the legitimacy of my beliefs in boarding school, I never was completely dissuaded from believing in a soul. ... My great-grandparents did not fall in love because they found each other physically appealing; they fell in love because their souls were compatible. This is why their marriage has been so successful after all these years. ...

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While in school, Malcolm claims that his schoolmates treated him like a pet as opposed to a human person. ... Although Malcolm gained from having a relative light complexion, since it enabled him to intermingle with other white students in school, the author still faced a number of disadvantages such as the difference between the native Whites and him with respect to skin-complexion. This heightened the frustration of the author following mistreatment at school by fellow schoolmates. ... The author feels that if there was a possibility, he would have freed himself from the inherited genes of...

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• Has Bibliography

Usui was believed to be a practicing Christian minister as well as the principle of the school. ... Finding little assistance in America, Usui returned to Japan to live as a Buddhist monk in a Zen monastery for the rest of his life (Stein 9). ... What is known accurately is that Usui returned to Japan, and with his new ability to read Sanskrit, found texts describing the formula for healing. ... Lastly, upon returning to his monastery he was informed that the director was bedridden by painful arthritis. ... Mystery schools emerged out of traditional faiths that safeguarded the most powerful ...

• Word Count: 10422
• Approx Pages: 42
• Grade Level: High School