A Separate Peace

             A Separate Peace written by John Knowles is about two boys who are best friends
             and worst enemies. The characters names are Gene and Phineas, also known as Finny.
             During the story Finny starts a club called Super Suicide Society so Gene can have some
             fun at Devon, but Gene assumes he is trying to ruin his study habits. The theme of the
             story is to think before you act, you never know what will result from it. Also do not let
             jealousy control your actions, you never know what could go wrong from it. Another
             theme of the story is that there is a little jealousy in us all. The setting took place during
             World War II at Devon school. Devon was a school were a lot of people went and would
             The main characters in the story are Finny and Gene. Finny is someone that is
             good at almost everything, he is excellent at sports. Everything he does is to make others
             happy. Even if he has to break the rules, he does it to have fun and to show Gene a good
             time. Gene (narrator) is someone who gets jealous over little things and tries his best to
             defeat Finny. He wants to be the best at everything. Gene and Finny were best friends in
             the beginning until Gene assumed that Finny was trying to destroy his study habits.
             Some of the other characters are Leper and Brinker. Leper is scared of a lot of
             things and he wants to join a club Finny made up called the Super Suicide Society, Leper
             is to scared to join. Brinker is mostly playing a Sherlock Holmes game, trying to get Gene
             to admit that he is the reason for Finny's fall and death. Gene and Finny have some
             common traits, the traits are that they want to be the best at everything. They are good at
             separate thing, but not the same. Finny is rather good at sports and Gene is good at
             work. The only thing is, Gene wants to be better than Finn
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