A Separate Peace
A Separate Peace written by John Knowles is about two boys who are best friends and worst enemies. The characters names are Gene and Phineas, also known as Finny. During the story Finny starts a club called Super Suicide Society so Gene can have some fun at Devon, but Gene assumes he is trying to ruin his study habits. The theme of the story is to think before you act, you never know what will result from it. Also do not let jealousy control your actions, you never know what could go wrong from it. Another theme of the story is that there is a little jealousy in us all. The setting took place during World War II at Devon school. Devon was a school were a lot of people went and would The main characters in the story are Finny and Gene. Finny is someone that is good at almost everything, he is excellent at sports. Everything he does is to make others happy. Even if he has to break the rules, he does it to have fun and to show Gene a good time. Gene (narrator) is someone who gets jealous over little things and tries his best to defeat Finny. He wants to be the best at everything. Gene and Finny were best
Some of the other characters are Leper and Brinker. Leper is scared of a lot of work. The only thing is, Gene wants to be better than Finny at everything Some of the things he says is " The house itself was high, white and oddly proper to be the
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Approximate Word count = 1069
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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