... grow stronger and more adept at surviving the challenge which we call life. Two literary sources that substantiate this quote are "A Separate Peace," by John Knowles, and "The Fault in Our Stars," by John Green. In the coming of age novel, "A Separate Peace," one of the major themes is the battle against one's inner enemies.The setting of the novel is the campus of ... ...

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... of stairs under which the housemaster lived...they concluded that he was strange." (A Turn with the Sun:20) to someone they have forgotten. A Separate Peace is a confession in retrospective from the first person point of view of Gene, one of the two main characters. (Barron) It is the story ... just considered authority the necessary evil against which happiness was achieved by reaction, the backboard which returned all the insults he threw at it." (A Separate Peace: 11) Because of his manipulative personality, Phineas is able to get away with many things others at the Devon school cannot...

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