The characters in John Knowles" "A Separate Peace" contain personalities that convey to summer and winter session. Summer session represents livelihood, care free, being happy, and just having fun. While on the other hand, winter session represents a depressing atmosphere, more solemn, studying hard, and somberness. Gene is a quiet, ... . In addition, Gene is withdrawn and always feels that he has to impress Finny. He cannot speak up for himself when he feels compelled to. The reader sees this when reading Genes" thoughts, "I went along, I never missed a meeting. It never occurred to me to sa...

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... Peace, written by John Knowles. The copyright date is 1959, and this book contains 196 pages. The scene takes place in the Devon School, in New Hampshire. It is the summer of 1942 (World War II) and America is at war. The plot is about a sixteen year old boy, Gene Forrester, the narrator of the book, returns to the Devon School ... a tree into the river to get the "courage" they need to go to the war, and so the two of them form a club called the Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session. Many boys decide to join. One day, on that tree with Gene only, Finny looses his balance and fall...

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• Grade Level: High School

... of a character named Gene Forester. Gene speaks about his adolescent life and the incidents he endured at Devon Prep, the private school he attended. The story takes place in the summer of 1942. Gene's best friend named Finny is very rambunctious and together they spend their teenage years always stumbling upon new adventures. The characteristics of Finny create him to be ... Devon Prep. Once again, Finny uses his quick wits to weasel himself out of another violation. The tricks and wits of Finny help entertain the reader. One wants to keep reading to see what kind of mishaps Finny will...

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... world, we are first encountered with Gene, as a light-hearted, sixteen-year old with no worries. Despite the fact that war was going on, Gene lived a carefree life "calmly, 2 numbly reading Virgil and playing tag in the river downstream" (7). To Gene and the boys, there was no need for fear or need to enroll in the war because there was no ... real war, the "bombs in Central Europe were completely unreal to us here...our place was too fair for us to accept that. We spent the summer in complete selfishness" (23). For Gene specifically, why would he need to worry? He was a confident, soci...

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John Knowles's A Separate Peace was a wonderful story about friendship and life. This novel was a great book to read during the summer before starting at a new school. I thought it was creative the way Knowles uses a flashback as the plot. In the first chapter, when Gene is visiting Devon fifteen years after he ... friends have the same interests I do, but most have different interests Gene and Finny didn't share many characteristics, but were best friends and were loyal to each other. Even after reading the passage about Phineas falling out of the tree and the passages where Gene confesses,...

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A Separate Peace was written by active author John Knowles from his real experiences and personal struggles. Knowles attended Phillips Exeter Academy, an exclusive New Hampshire prep school, for two summer sessions in 1943 and 1944. This book vaguely outlines his experiences at Exeter with himself as the main character but under the name of Gene Forrester. Knowles' novel tells the ... for the better. I would recommend A Separate Peace to everyone who has eyes to read it or someone to read it to them. I think that even those who do not enjoy reading would like it. The story is spellbinding. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A Separate Peace was written by active author John Knowles from his real experiences and personal struggles. Knowles attended Phillips Exeter Academy, an exclusive New Hampshire prep school, for two summer sessions in 1943 and 1944. This book vaguely outlines his experiences at Exeter with himself as the main character but under the name of Gene Forrester. Knowles' novel tells the ... for the better. I would recommend A Separate Peace to everyone who has eyes to read it or someone to read it to them. I think that even those who do not enjoy reading would like it. The story is spellbinding. I...

• Word Count: 1113
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... enemy than the best friend he was. While telling of his days at Devon, he says that in that summer he fought his own war and killed his enemy, leaving one to wonder if the enemy spoken of was himself or Finny. By reading the book, one can tell that Gene did in fact have a large amount of envy towards Finny, but ... ...

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