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San Francisco Chronicle World War Ii
1,344 wordsThe novel, A Separate Peace by John Knowles looks into the life of young men on the verge of adulthood. Some of them are not able to cope, while others deal with life and make the best of it. The novel does an excellent job of portraying life during World War II, as seen through the eyes of a young boy. The story takes places in Exeter, New Hampshire, in the Devon School. It opens during the summer of 1942. In A Separate Peace, the main character, Gene, starts to feel as though him and Phineas (...
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Dead Poets Society Three Main Characters
797 wordsBoth stories, A Separate Piece and Dead Poets Society, have at least three major characters. Each of which are similar and different. The three main characters in A Separate Piece are Gene, Phineas, and Brinker with his relationship with his dad. The three main characters in Dead Poets Society are Todd, Neal, and Neal's relationship with his dad. The similarities between Gene and Todd are a lot alike. One example is that in the beginning Gene was shy and so was Todd. They both needed a source of...
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Separate Peace Gene Writes War
734 wordsAs with most novels, it is best to begin a discussion of thematic by examining the title. The phrase " a separate peace" is mentioned once in the novel when, speaking of the Winter Carnival, Gene writes: "It was this liberation we had torn from the gray encroachments of 1943, the escape we had concocted, this afternoon of momentary, illusory, special and separate peace. " The Devon of 1942 and 1943 is, at times, a haven of peace and forgetfulness for Gene and his classmates. And it is significan...
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Eli Whitney Cotton Gin
1,080 wordsDustin Kerstein Section F 1 Cotton Gin In the late 1700 s the slave population in the United States had decreased. Before the invention of the cotton gin the South, which could only make money by farming, was loosing money because it didnt have a major crop to export to England and the North besides tobacco and rice. However, these crops could be grown elsewhere. Cotton was the key because it couldnt be grown in large amounts in other places, but only one type of cotton that could be cleaned eas...
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Gene And Finny People In The World
877 wordsThe key component of the novel A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, is jealousy. The novel builds upon jealousy, which is one of the ten deadly sins. Envy, can make a person act in a way that is out of their character. In the novel, Gene is jealous of Phineas. Jealously is one of the most common feelings in the world we live in today. When we are driving down the road, and we see someone in a nicer car than the one we have, our immediate instinct is to be jealous and feel that we would like to hav...
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Artificial Vs Natural In A Separate Peace
1,825 wordsSomeone once said that being yourself, being who you are, is a successful rebellion. Gene Forrester, one of the main characters in John Knowles's novel, A Separate Peace should have taken this advice. Throughout the novel, Gene acted artificially, disguising his true self. He lived in fear of people finding out what he was really like. Phineas, Gene's best friend and the other main character in this novel, on the other hand, acted naturally around people. He was not afraid of people seeing who h...
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Gene And Finny Separate Peace
1,611 wordsIn John Knowles A Separate Peace, symbols are used to develop and advance the themes of the novel. One theme is the lack of an awareness of the real world among the students who attend the Devon Academy. The war is a symbol of the "real world", from which the boys exclude themselves. It is as if the boys are in their own little world or bubble secluded from the outside world and everyone else. Along with their friends, Gene and Finny play games and joke about the war instead of taking it serious...
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A Separate Peace Phineas And Carpe Diem
441 wordsHe was everywhere, he enjoyed himself hugely, he laughed out loud at passing sea gulls" (39). This line is describing Phineas, or Finny, and how he lives life to its fullest and seizes the day. Finny is an example of living the "carpe diem" (seize the day) philosophy from the movie "Dead Poets Society. " There are a few examples in the first part of this novel of how Finny takes advantage of life. The first example is how he enjoys himself so much at the beach. Gene describes how Finny has such ...
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Competition Between Gene And Phineas
1,372 wordsOften times between both the best of friends and the bitterest of enemies there is competition. It can be a friendly competition over some minor event or goal, or a ruthless quest between two rivals who will stop at nothing to be first to reach the pinnacle. In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, Gene finds himself in a self-created competition with both himself and Phineas. Gene first is in competition with his own emotions and his loathing of Finny which conflicts with his friendship with Finny....
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Rivalry In A Separate Peace
1,554 wordsEvery person feels rivalry or competition towards others at some point in their lives. This rivalry greatly affects our ability to understand others, and this eventually results in paranoia and hostility. It is a part of human nature, that people coldly drive ahead for their gain alone. Man's inhumanity towards man is a way for people to protect themselves from having pain inflicted on them by others, and achieving their goals and desires without the interference of others. This concept of man's...
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Summer Session Gene Finny
459 wordsThe persistent theme of A Separate Peace is the deterioration of a complex friendship. The bond between two boys (Finny and Gene) becomes tested and attacked, as the reader observes a seemingly utopian relationship fall into decadence. Gene becomes challenged with various inner hostilities, while Finny, his proclivity for athletics revoked, has been forced to find acceptability and provocation elsewhere. Furthermore, the book commences during mid-to-late 1942, during the height of the Axis power...
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Gene And Finny Finny And Gene
747 wordsThe Mind Murders the Body By Sina Same 'Adolescent friendships are of the most complex companionship's due to the suppressed feelings of contempt one child may feel toward another. '; The deterioration of the complex friendship of Gene and Phineas is brought about in John Knowles' A Separate Peace by the combination of their envy and denial. Finny and Gene begin their summer of 1942 with the illusion of a great companionship. Gene's paranoia and envy disrupt the relationship between him and Finn...
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Finny War Effort
962 wordsIn a Separate Peace by John Knowles there is a character Phineas other wise known as Finny. Finny is an honest and ignorant charismatic young boy of 16 who is outgoing. Finny is unknowing of his ability to manipulate people. Finny is a lover of basic simple life. This story is set in a New England Prep school. Finny and Gene are the best of friends. Making their contribution to the war effort by simultaneously jumping out of a tree, Gene jounces the limb and causes Finny to fall and break his le...
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Great Athlete Gene Finny
398 wordsGene is a prime example of the typical Devon School pupil. He s a good student, and most likely of a relatively wealthy background. Physically, Gene is sixteen years old. He s five feet, eight and one half inches tall and weighs one hundred forty pounds. And while walking, Gene is often breaking into West Point stride [page 11 ]. These, basically, are the only physical descriptions offered by the narrator. Through his retelling's, however, we as readers do get some idea of Gene s thoughts and pe...
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Reality Of War Gene And Finny
2,464 wordsPd 2 4 / 25 / 00 InDifferent Peace Nathan Gourmet Pd 2 4 / 25 / 00 In John Knowles book A Separate Peace he communicates how the war in him was taking its toll on him. He uses the characters in a complicated plot to show the destructive forces of war. The characters, Gene and Finny, are the opposing forces in a struggle between the reality of war (World War II) and a separate peace. A peace away from the real war and the awful things that come from it. Through their relationship, which is a stru...
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Gene And Finny Finny And Gene
1,082 wordsFinny How Things Change In the novel A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, a boy named Gene visits his high school 15 years after graduating in order to find an inner peace. While attending the private boys school during the second World War, Genes best friend Phineas died and Gene knows he was partially responsible. Phineas, or Finny as he was sometimes called, was the most popular boy in school. He was a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. Gene, on the other hand, was a lonely, self-sufficient...
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Super Suicide Society Separate Peace
503 wordsThroughout the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles, there were two dominant characters. Gene who is the narrator and Finny who is Genes best friend have a great relationship shown in A Separate Peace. Finny whose real name is Phineas has three qualities, manipulation, athleticism, and is a strong leader. Manipulation is shown all through the novel by Finny and is one of his best assets that he has. We see his manipulation skills from getting out of trouble when they skipped dinner to the time...
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Gene And Finny Devon School
611 wordsGene and Phineas Gene and Phineas are two different people. These two teenagers were brought together by the Devon School, a boarding school in New England. Both of these boys are growing up in a time of trouble world war 2 but this is only one way they are alike, however they are also different in many ways. Phineas is a great athlete, the best in the entire school. What Gene lacks in athleticism he gains in smarts. Gene is one the smartest kids in his class and could well be valedictorian. The...
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Gene And Finny Separate Peace
742 wordsAn analysis of the rivalry of Phineas and Gene. From the novel, A Separate Peace by John Knowles. Phineas world was a very beautiful thing to him. A world where war was a work of art, painted so perfectly in his mind. He was full of views and ideas that were perfect in subject, but realistically unachievable. Gene was a Smart, intelligent boy. Every thing was completely real to him. School was very important. When he played sports, someone always lost, nobody always won in his mind. Gene, in his...
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Separate Peace Social Norms
489 wordsThesis: The five main characters in John Knowles A Separate Peace represent social stereotypes, according to some people. In his book A Separate Peace, John Knowles represents jocks with Phineas, a character who believes that sports are the key to life. Phineas is more of a sportsman than a jock. Real jocks only care about winning, Phineas makes sure its not possible for anyone to win or lose. Chet Douglas is an exaggerated prep, just like Phineas is an exaggerated jock. He is obsessed with lear...
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