Title: "A Seperate Peace" by John Knowles Category:Literature / European Literature Details: Words: 1159 | Pages: 4.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
"A Seperate Peace" by John Knowles
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A Separate Peace was essentially a book about a young man growing up in a secluded reality. When the book opens we enter upon three characters just ending their sophomore year in high school. As these three characters develop over the next two years we experience their lives through the eyes of Gene.
Gene himself isn't the most stable person but he is our guide through the story. We first meet Gene when the …showed first 85 words of 1159 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 1159 total…most, even though they were competing most of the time. He realizes that Finny was his best friend, and friend forgive each other, but no matter what he did he could not bring him back. "I did not cry then or ever about finny. I did not cry even when I stood watching him being lowered into his family's straight-laced burial ground outside of Boston. I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case."(186)
