a separate peace

A Separate Peace is a remarkable story about the relationship between two young students, Gene and Phineas. Their friendship develops through the formation of secret societies and late night card games. A tragic event, at first glance an accident, changes their lives forever. As the story unfolds the friends have to deal with the fact that the unfortunate event was no accident. An extremely well written book, A Separate Peace is a wartime story about …

…from a superb athlete but following a catastrophe struggles to walk again. Leper is a rather flat and one-dimensional. Brinker Hadley, the class politician, is a static character with fixed attitudes and ideas. A Separate Peace is a great read. The stories of Phineas and Gene can be a lesson to today’s teenagers as they move into the increasingly complex world about them. The timeless lessons from this fifty-year-old story are certainly applicable today.