War touches everyone in some way; however, very few prefer to describe their involvement with it; yet John Knowles, the writer of A Separate Peace, touches upon many themes involving war. Knowles displays these themes and attitudes of war in his book, A Separate Peace. ... Because Gene's views most closely reflect Knowles" views of war, they are the most important of all the attitudes of war that are included in A Separate Peace. These main characters, Gene, Leper, and Finny, provide the attitudes that Knowles's has for war. ... Knowles, John. ...

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My war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.? This quote by Gene Forrester, a character in John Knowle's novel A Separate Peace, depicts Gene's personal turmoil during his high school years. Throughout the entire novel Gene had ...

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Through the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles, one of the main characters named Gene Forester is seemingly always in a conflict. These conflicts both internal and external plague Gene until the very end. It is these conflicts that lead to the creation of an enemy that Gene is at war with thro...

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"The thought was, "You and Phineas are even already. You are even in enmity. You are both coldly driving forward for yourselves alone. You did hate him for breaking that school swimming record, but so what? He hated you for getting an A in every course but one last term. You would have h...

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• Grade Level: High School