One of the main characters was Phineas, or Finnny. Finny is a very outgoing person. He's a daredevil and athletic. Finny was also popular and handsome. He was one the boys followed, looked up to, and did anything he said or came up with. Even when Finny gets hurt he tries to play, or stay involved in, sports through Gene. Finny is athletic, but isn't so good with his grades. "It wasn't that he never worked, because he did work, in short, intense bouts now and then." (Pg. 46)
             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 they are still in some ways affected by it.
             One conflict in the novel is the conflict between Gene and Finny. Gene feels inferior to Finny. He feels flawed and imperfect. He also feels that he has to try to live through Finny after his accident. "...and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas." (Pg. 77) And because Finny could no longer be the athlete he could be, he kept Gene by his side and tried to get Gene to do the things he would have like to do. One incident is when he was training Gene for the 1944 Olympics. Another conflict is an internal conflict with Gene. Gene is a follower and goes along with anything Finny says. He feels he has to do whatever needs to be done for Finny. Gene didn't speak out at what he was feeling. "It was a courageous thing to say. Exposing a sincere emotion nakedly...I should have said something...I almost did." (Pg. 40)
             A Separate Peace is written the first person point of view from the narrator, Gene. Gene, the narrator, is reflecting back to fifteen years ago. The point of view greatl
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