"A Seperate Peace" by John Knowles

Very Good Essay reveiwing John Knowles "A seperate peace" Good Job! 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 …

…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)