The Garden of Eden and Devon
The novel A Separate Peace written by John Knowles is a great book for it has plenty of symbols in it. Whether it is symbolizing what exactly the separate peace is or how oddly the seasons seem to symbolize things. Comparing Eden with Devon is a very great comparison. The tree, the setting, and how greatly large the setting was were all similar in these stories. The setting in this book is surprisingly almost the same as The Garden of Eden. When Gene made a certain quote from this novel, "I did'nt entirely like this glossy new surface, because it made the school look like a museum and that's exactly what it was to me, and what I did not want it to be" (1). What he meant by this is that the surface is something new and he did not like it. This is similar Eden because everything was new
------------------------------------------------------------------------ The setting likewise was also a very large one in both stories. Gene pondered the setting himself saying, "I thought that, from the Devon woods, trees reached in an unbroken, widening corridor so far to the north that no one had ever seen the other end, somewhere up in the far unorganized tip of Canada" (23). When he said this he meant that he thought the woods of Devon were so largely expanded. Eden was also a place of almost never ending land. When Gene quoted, "It is the beauty of small areas of order- a large yard, a group of trees, three similar dormitories, a circle of old houses- living together in contentious harmony""(4). When he said this, he meant that everything all tied in together making it just a plain setting. Eden was set upon m
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Approximate Word count = 558
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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