In times of war, people and societies change to adapt to the lifestyle war brings with it. In John Knowles' A Separate Peace the characters must adapt to the lifestyle brought forth by World War II. Some make it through these times better than others and some just don't make it at all. This brings me to my reasoning for the theme of this novel; "survival of the fittest".
From the beginning of this novel it is made abundantly clear that Phineas and Gene are the fittest. In chapter one Phineas is described as "...the best athlete in the school" with "a strong neck in and uninterrupted, unemphatic unity of strength."(8) Clearly Phineas is the fittest physically. His physical build and supe
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