A Seperate Peace
Thesis: John Knowles uses symbolism in the novel A Separate Peace to show the coming of age, in young people in high school.III. THE DEVON AND NAGUAMSETT RIVERSJeremiah Noack Noack 1John Knowles' A Separate Peace attracts many young readers because of its high school setting. One of his uses of symbolism is to show how Phineas and Gene are complete opposites. Another use of symbolism is, the Devon as carefree summer days, and the Naguamsett as adulthood. He also uses symbolism with the war as reality, and how is effects the students at Devon. Knowles uses symbolism as the main components in his novel A Separate Peace.Phineas and Gene are often considered to be symbols of the two sides of the human personality-good and evil. Phineas becomes a symbol of the ideal pers
Gene jokes a few times during the course of the novel about enlisting with Brinker. It wasn't anything you really felt against me, it wasn't some kind of hate you've felt all along. Gene does not even realize how important he is to Leper until this point. Leper sends Gene a telegram as hisNoack 4call for help. Sooner or later, Gene and Phineas, who at the beginning of the novel are extremely immature, have to face reality. From this point on, the effects of the war ta!ke a toll on the lives of the students. John Knowles' first published novel, A Separate Peace, now a decade old, is a minor but very nearly perfect piece of work: a tight, cohesive account of the corruption of innocence that is not merely the finest "prep-school novel" but a genuine work of art (Yardley, 271). Leper accuses Gene of knocking Finny out of the tree, Noack 2and Gene automatically goes on the defensive. He is getting older and closer to his eighteenth birthday when he will be drafted into the war, and he finally begins to prepare. These teenagers do not take the war seriously, and this causes a shock when Leper is the first one to enlist. It wasn't anything personal" (Knowles, 183). The war is a symbol of how things are not always what they seem. Phineas' death is the end of Gene's childhood. He is unprepared for the gory, gruesome things he sees when he arrives for training, and the change is unbearable for Leper who is used to the traditions at home and! at Devon.
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