... 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 the least important of the main characters, but his characterization still holds many important truths ... ever" (Gene 118). They joked about Leper's involvement in the war, putting him in every important war headline in the news. "We talked abou...

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• Grade Level: High School

My book is entitled A Separate 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, were he had graduated fifteen years ago. He ... and says that some morrow from the broken leg must have been released into the bloodstream and gone to the heart killing Finny immediately. At the end of the novel, Gene realizes that he i...

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• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... a world at war. Thoughts of the impending war linger in the minds of the two central characters, Gene and Phineas, as their graduation approaches. John Knowles" novel, A Separate Peace, addresses the conflict that these characters will face in their transition from sheltered high school life to the harsh and unshielded world outside its gates. Brinker Hadley, a schoolmate of Gene and Phineas, is intimidated by the impending transition from Devon to adulthood ... . Brinker is well liked by almost everyone. He looks athletic, but unlike the other students, he has no ... ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... rather than trying to become someone else. There is much to be learned from the pain experienced by Gene as he battles an internal war and travels down the path to adulthood. World War II functions as a background of the novel. I think it is interesting that John Knowles named his novel A Separate Peace. "A separate peace" refers to the Devon School that Gene attends. Although in a secluded New England atmosphere, it is ... obvious that even the Devon students do not escape the war and there is truly no peace in ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... , 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 in a war battlefield, it just takes place in school. The war in Europe took away the peace from the boys, affected them, and influenced them to be ready for ... war even if he went to World War, because he wouldn't hate anyone the same way. Finny was affected by the war the most, after he had broken his leg. Even thought he tr...

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• Grade Level: High School

A Separate Peace A Separate Peace, a novel by John Knowles, takes place on the grounds of an exclusive, all male, New England high school during World War II. At the beginning of the novel, all of the boys were united by the common thread of being Devon School students. As the tranquility of the summer session ends, the boys of Devon find themselves facing difficult, life-altering situations. Through the personal crisis and tragedy, each boy at Devon School struggles ... to fine his own "separate peace." Leper was the outcast at Devon, which did not ... ...

• Word Count: 967
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School