A Seperate Peace

In A Separate Peace by John Knowels, the value of dealing with your feelings and dealing with your enemies is shown by Gene Forester, a student at Devon during World War II who dealt with few human enemies, but his emotions created circumstances far greater than any human enemy. "I never killed anybody," Gene had commented later in his adulthood, "And I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy,” Gene had put …

…that wars were made by "something ignorant in the human heart." Gene was ready for the war now. He was ready to face new problems and new enemies. Finny took problems a little at a time, and that is how Gene has changed. He is taking that same approach also. Hate, anger, fear, jealousy, and the enemies in the human heart are gone from Gene now; Finny has taken them with him to his grave.