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…In a book about war, A Separate Peace, many themes and lessons are learned. In the novel, John Knowles expresses good and bad traits about war and the world war. War not only means country vs. country but person vs. themselves and person vs. person…

…World War II was a horrific and tragic war all the whole world. Many lives around the world were taken to defend their countries beliefs and to strive for world peace. Many think that the war was inevitable, but I think it could have been…

…A Separate Peace by John Knowles is a coming of age novel in which Gene, the main character, revisits his high school and his traumatic teen years. When Gene was a teen-ager his best friend and roommate Phineas (Finny) was the star athlete…

…A SEPARATE PEACE Throughout the book A Separate Peace we see many of Knowles characters struggling with different aspects of their lives. One prevalent battle these characters are fighting is that between the savage, and civilized nature…

…novel "A Seperate Peace". Knowles graduated in 1945; however, he did not attend college immediately afterwards. He joined the war effort instead as a part of the U.S. Army Air Force's Aviation Cadet Program. Afterwards he went to Yale and graduated…

…A Separate Peace Sean McClusky Action, Adventure, Guilt, some of the characteristics of the book A Separate Peace. A tragic story about the events of a boys life named Finny. Finny and his best friend, or his arch rival, horse around and play games…

…A Separate Peace Topic A The theme suggested in the closing paragraph of the novel A Separate Peace is that people create their own enemy and then they defend themselves laboriously and obsessively against their imaginary enemy. They develop…

…A Separate Peace A Separate Peace written by John Knowles tells the story of two friends in their quest through school, war, friendships, and death. As the story moves on, so does Gene's and Finny's friendship. It goes through many changes…

…A Separate Peace Essay The story A Separate Peace takes place at a boy’s boarding school called Devon. Devon was built in the middle 1800’s and is located in New Hampshire. In the story there are two main characters, Gene and Finny, who are linked…

…In life people are often faced with circumstances. These circumstances can either help the person grow, or it may give the person sorrow and pain. John Knowles in A Separate Peace places his characters in situations, which they could either grow from…