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The setting in this book is surprisingly almost the same as The Garden of Eden. When Gene made a certain quote from this novel, “I did’nt entirely like this glossy new surface, because it made the school look like a museum and that’s exactly what it was to me, and what I did not want it to be” (1). What he meant by this is that the surface is something new and he did not like it. This is similar Eden because everything was new
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The symbols in A Separate Peace go on and on and really make the novel.
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. and tying all together making it perfect. When Gene quoted, “It is the beauty of small areas of order- a large yard, a group of trees, three similar dormitories, a circle of old houses- living together in contentious harmony"”(4). Eden was set upon many trees, large open land, rivers, etc. As Gene said, “Like all old, good schools, Devon did not stand isolated behind wall and gates but he merged naturally from the town which had produced it” (2). Gene quoted again, “ It’s soaring black trunk was set with wooden pegs leading up to a substantial limb which extended farther toward the water (7). It was probably rather a large one and so the tree from Devon was too. His words by saying that meant Devon was not like a locked up school that you could not get to and the terrible tree from Eden was not isolated but instead out in the open for anyone to eat from it. The tree in Eden was something that was not to be touched or eaten from. Adam and Eve and after they ate the apple from the tree. The setting from the book, Devon, and the garden are both based upon a large garden or field. “The tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary from age, enfeebled, dry” (6). When he said this he meant that he thought the woods of Devon were so largely expanded.
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