A Seperate Peace
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. In A separate Peace, John Knowles expresses this theme by Gene's war against Finny, Gene against society, and the effects of war shown by Leper. Throughout the story Gene, the main character and the narrator, feels that there is a war between Finny, his best friend, and himself. It is this feeling that causes Gene's to be mean to Finny and treat him unfairly. Gene first starts to feel his hatred toward Finny when he starts to envy Finny because of his excellence in sports. To make himself feel better Gene determines that Finny is trying to ruin his studies so he can be the most athletic and smartest person on campus. This thought infuriates Gene and he decides that he needs revenge. When Finny and Gene go for a double jump Gene shakes the tree and Finny falls out. After Finny hits the ground Gene jumps and is cleansed of all fear. Throughout the novel Gene is mean to Finny. This is revealed when Gene goes to visit Finny before fall session. Gene mentions the tree inciden
Gene replies saying that would be impossible to do since Finny can't stand up with out help. I didn't car because it had nothing to do with me. Some people think that he did it for different reasons. When Gene arrives at his house Leper is behind a window and lets him in. t and starts a mini war in the household. On the way there Gene convinces himself that Leper escaped from spies instead of the army. I didn't want to hear any more of it. Now you know that war doesn't mean just but country vs. Brinker still thinks that Gene shook the limb intentionally now for several reasons. " 'I came to-' 'You want to break something else in me! Is that why you're here!' " Finny was the last to figure out what Gene had done to him after all of the clues and hints were revealed. When talking to Leper Gene notices a twitch in Leper's eye, and realizes that it was involuntary. Gene then mentioned to Leper that skiing down a steep hill would be fun to do to get speed. After saying this Finny starts to hurt both mentally and physically and Gene leaves making this the last time he is extremely hurtful to Finny. " That page describes how bad Leper has been effected by the war and how bad Gene's savage can be.
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