While reading any peace of literature, a significant event in that story can lead to a further understanding of the characters involved with the incident, and/or the novel itself. In the book A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, one character makes a horrible mistake that not only advanced the reader's understanding of the novel, but also leads to that characters fall. Jean Forrester, the narrator of the story, made a fatal decision that led to the death of his best friend, along with an understanding of the emotional problems that caused his decision. Finny was not only Gene's best friend, but ...

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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 lead to the creation of an enemy that Gene is at war with throughout A Separate Peace. This enemy is Gene himself. The first time the enemy within Gene gets the best of him, it causes him to hurt his best friend. When Gene and Finny create the "Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session" they decide to make the initiation jumping out of a tree by the Devon Rive...

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• Grade Level: High School

The novel All Quiet on the Western Front is a war story of the experiences that Paul Baumer encounters while living through the harsh habitat and situations that he and his close friends are put into. The author, Erich Maria Ramarque, makes the reader feel in the action as he describes in depth the countless brushes with death that Baumer goes through while being on the front line in World War 1. It begins when Baumer and a group of his friends and classmates have enlisted in the German Army. As the book begins we are already part of the action. The book continues beyond the war and shows the ...

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• Grade Level: High School