... with an almost surgical technique, disserting its parts, eliminating the unneeded, and adding the ideas, that were needed to create an effective and interpretive novel, showed a true talent of novelist John Knowles. His thought of putting the atmosphere in the major place, and manipulating its weather, fauna, and fate of characters, explains its exact role in their lives. The tree, which ... than thought. Gene's envy climaxes and interprets Finny's increased studying as an attempt to even things out in the rivalry and increases his own efforts to make sure he stays ahead of Finny in the...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate