War touches everyone in some way; however, very few prefer to describe their involvement with it; yet John Knowles, the writer of A Separate Peace, touches upon many themes involving war. Knowles displays these themes and attitudes of war in his book, A Separate Peace. These attitudes are best displayed through the characterization of the main characters - Gene, Finny, and Leper. Leper is ... 's most important opinion of war is that everyone creates their own enemy some time in their life that they must struggle against to destroy. Because Gene's views most closely reflect Knowles" views of w...

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• Grade Level: High School

Through the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles, one of the main characters named Gene Forester is seemingly always in a conflict. These conflicts both internal and external plague Gene until the very end. It is these conflicts that ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Through the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles, one of the main characters named Gene Forester is seemingly always in a conflict. These conflicts both internal and external plague Gene until the very end. It is these conflicts that ... ...

• Word Count: 558
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... Exeter Academy). This is around the year 1943, the time period where teenagers had to make a decision, either to enlist or wait and be drafted. In this novel the author John Knowles gives a good understanding of the war. The main characters Gene and Finny are always struggling between the "separate peace" and the real war. Even thought the story doesn't take place ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... every course but one last term. You would have had an A in that one except for him. Except for him."" This is what Gene Forrester thought of Phineas (Finny) in John Knowles book, A Separate Peace. Gene absolutely hated Finny, but continues to pretend to be Finny's best friend. At the end of the book, Gene learns that it was not Phineas who ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Who was Gene's Enemy: Finny or Himself? Rough Draft In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, the main character and narrator Gene was living a life full of war. All events in Gene's life were now being effected by the war going on around him, but more ... ...

• Word Count: 488
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School