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…with its enormous playing fields, healthy green turf, gently flowing river, and calling birds. This peaceful environment is a sharp contrast to the world war and the personal conflict within Gene. Throughout the novel the images of water take on symbolic…

…not help wanting what seems extremely natural and easy for some. Although not everyone is friends with a gold medalist, envy, as shown in the novel A Separate Peace, can indeed be found in friendships. Through A Separate Peace, John Knowles displays the idea…

…A SEPARATE PEACE It was a hot and humid summer, while World War Two was in progress. The summer holidays was the time when all the friends were together at the Devon School. The students at this school were enjoying themselves either studying…

…A SEPARATE PEACE It was a hot and humid summer, while World War Two was in progress. The summer holidays was the time when all the friends were together at the Devon School. The students at this school were enjoying themselves either studying, doing…

…"Peace for All" Mahatma Gandhi first started his movement of non-violence in India during the late 1800's - early 1900's. He became active in the struggle to end the humiliations and indignities that people were facing in South Africa when he traveled…

…“…It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.” The background of “A separate Peace” is the Second World War and the focus of book…

…: The setting of the novel takes place one summer during the early years of World War II in Devon. Devon is in New Hampshire. The setting is important because the novel takes place in a small community and the boys of the novel aren’t affected much by the war, yet…

…in his studies. During the winter, Gene participates in a winter carnival that Finny has organized. He easily wins all of the sporting events, proving that Finny's efforts have paid off. But Gene is still not at peace with himself. The war…

…Leper In the book “A Separate Peace” there are many characters which are talked about and play a role in the story. The main characters Gene and Finny, short for Phineas, are what drive the whole story and are the center of the many themes…

…in man. He throws himself down the stairs sacrificing himself for Gene, as Jesus did for man. Gene represents mankind and man’s capacity to hate. He shows how man can destroy, as in war, and that man must remove hate in order to achieve a “separate peace…