In the novel A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, Gene and Finny are the two teenage boys that are the main characters. ... This was seen in many situations in A Separate Peace. ... Life's contrasts" was the theme of A Separate Peace, and John Knowles did a very good job of supporting these examples. ...
In A Separate Peace, the Devon School acts as a microcosm for a child's life during the war, fully sheltered from the audacity of a world at war. ... John Knowles" novel, A Separate Peace, addresses the conflict that these characters will face in their transition from sheltered high school life to the harsh and unshielded world outside its gates. ... Each struggles to find his own separate peace in a world of challenges. ...
My book is entitled A Separate Peace, written by John Knowles. The copyright date is 1959, and this book contains 196 pages. The scene takes place in the Devon School, in New Hampshire. It is the summer of 1942 (World War II) and America is at war. The plot is about a sixteen year old boy, Gen...
