Sep. Peace
In the book "A Separate Peace" there are many characters which are talked about and play a role in the story. The main characters Gene and Finny, short for Phineas, are what drive the whole story and are the center of the many themes and meanings derived from this book. Elwin Lepellier also known as Leper-Lepellier is not as visible as Gene and Finny, but plays a role that is essential to the story. Leper was one of those people who keep to themselves all the time and aren't looking to be recognized. He didn't really talk to anyone although he spoke to Gene. Leper was always off looking for beaver dams or snails to photograph or off skiing and admiring nature. He only shows up a couple of times during the story, but seems to have importance when he does show up. In the January of the winter session Leper surprises everyone by enlisting in the United States ski troops. Leper was only a few weeks away from being eighteen. In the Butt Room, Brinker brought in newspapers with headlines about the war and made jokes about Leper's success i
do you think you're talking to? Stick to your snails, Lepellier" (136). In the end when Brinker held a hearing on Finny's accident, Leper was questioned as to what he saw that day to verify who caused Finny's accident. Brinker brought Leper in to get the facts, but Finny left in an outrage, crying. That was when he broke his leg again which later led to his death. Leper brought the war close to home for the Devon crew and made them see it in a way they never would have. His own actions diverted the attention to him. At the end of the book Gene states about Leper that "...or else, like Leper, emerge from a protective cloud of vagueness only to meet it, the horror, face to face, just as he had always feared, and so give up the struggle absolutely."(196) Leper, a minor character, helped the boys realize reality whether with his action inside and outside of Devon. silences between jokes about Leper's glories we wondered whether we ourselves would measure up to the humblest minimum of the army". Later on, Finny stopped going to the Butt Room sin
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Approximate Word count = 709
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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