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
...