A Separate Peace Symbols are often used throughout the novel A Separate Peace, to help the reader distinguish between who or what is moral and immoral. ... The second main symbol would be the Winter Carnival, which represented the peace and freedom that were considered as qualities of Finny. ... The Devon River symbolized peace because the war did not really affect the people in Devon, but the Naguamsett River represented Europe where the war was taking place with all the battles. ... He was trying to make it seem like he was infected with the filth, which represente...

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• Grade Level: High School

In John Knowles" A Separate Peace the characters must adapt to the lifestyle brought forth by World War II. ... After all, how many of the characters of A Separate Peace are alive and sane besides Gene? ...

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A Separate Peace The trial at Devon between Gene and Finny plays a vital part in the novel. In "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles the trial between Gene and Finny brings out many conflicts between them and Finny faces his own conflicts when hearing the facts given at the time. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

From Innocence To Experience The novel "a Separate Peace" is greatly dedicated to the adolescent years of ones life. ... Elwin Lepellier, a.k.a leper, is a character in "a Separate Peace" who underwent adolescent changes. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Similarities Between "Nothing Gold Can Stay" and "A Separate Piece" The novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles and the poem titled " Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost are both very interesting and similar pieces of literature. ... A Separate Peace and "Nothing Gold Can Stay" are very similar and show the same message that not everything is perfect. In A Separate Peace by John Knowles the story is told through the perspective of Gene, the main character who let jealousy get in the way of his somewhat perfect friendship, and his experience...

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Friendship is certainly a major theme throughout the novel. It is often based on a mutual need, and many people seek friends to fill breaches in there own lives. A perfect example is when Gene, who seems to be insecure about himself, is drawn to Finny's confidence and love for life. Their friendship...

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Internally the protagonists are searching for their own separate peace, and that is found At Devon Prep. ... In peace times friendships would not have as many rough edges. ... Thus in searching for each separate peace, they found not only those, but a bond of friendship that can not be broken, not even by death. ...

• Word Count: 515
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• Grade Level: High School

Internally the protagonists are searching for their own separate peace, and that is found At Devon Prep. ... In peace times friendships would not have as many rough edges. ... Thus in searching for each separate peace, they found not only those, but a bond of friendship that can not be broken, not even by death. ...

• Word Count: 515
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• Grade Level: High School

Internally the protagonists are searching for their own separate peace, and that is found At Devon Prep. ... In peace times friendships would not have as many rough edges. ... Thus in searching for each separate peace, they found not only those, but a bond of friendship that can not be broken, not even by death. ...

• Word Count: 515
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• Grade Level: High School

Internally the protagonists are searching for their own separate peace, and that is found At Devon Prep. ... In peace times friendships would not have as many rough edges. ... Thus in searching for each separate peace, they found not only those, but a bond of friendship that can not be broken, not even by death. ...

• Word Count: 515
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• Grade Level: High School

In the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles, the narrator and protagonist, given Gene Forrester's obsession for order and excellence, he would make the better soldier. ... Gene Forrester proved to be the "one" in answer to the question of who would be a better soldier, based on the mental and physical characteristics that he portrayed in the novel A Separate Peace. ...

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Does Gene "kill" his innocence? Gene kill his innocence also known as his youth or childhood. He comes out of his comfort zone and starts to transition from a boy to a man. In order to transition he has to go through conflicts and struggles but Devon does not exactly allow him to do so. Does Finny lose his innocence? ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the novel, A Separate Peace by Robert Knowles, Gene, the main character, is affected by a few evils inside a person and he also releases his own evil. ... The first character from A Separate Peace that lets his evil out is Quackenbush. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A separate peace shows jealousy and envy coinciding to form a life-long catastrophe which haunts Gene into almost becoming a psychotic individual who eventually becomes too numb to even cry over Finney, whose innocence has no relation to his death. ...

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In what way might Jane Eyre be considered a feminist novel? What points does the novel make about the treatment and position of women in Victorian society? With particular attention to the book's treatment of marriage, is there any way in which it might be considered anti-feminist? Jane Eyre ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Romanticism is separated from the formality and the order of the artistic movements of the past and embraces the lack of order. ... In the typical sentimental novel, something present an obstacle to love and lovers are separated, which is what happens in the plot. ... A partier this, being a good wife, Maria needs to maintain honor and peace of marriage. ...

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At the end of the story, Raskolnikov confesses for the murder, goes to prison in Siberia, and realizes that surrender to true love and equality finally puts his mind at peace and ease. ... Raskolnikov's theory upon the existence of two separate types of man - the ordinary and the "extraordinary" – is quite egotistical and arbitrary. ...

• Word Count: 1095
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate