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 an emotional quest for his own separate peace. He endured test after test of his inner strength while attending the Devon Academy. Gene Forrester had many serious occurrences during his high school years, some of which have scarred him for life.
Gene attended the Devon Academy in New England during the start of World War II. However, Gene had his own war and enemies to fight, not the enemy Nazis. Gene's greatest competitor and enemy ended up as his best friend Phineas. Gene had not even enlisted or?put on [his] uniform?? for the world war yet, and already he fought daily in his inner war at Devon amongst his friends. Unknowingly, Gene's separate war would end much quicker than he could ever imagine.
Gene's frequent battles of the war at Devon consisted of proving his worth to Phineas and his other peers. Living on?active duty all [his] time at school??, Gene had to perform tasks and feats of which had little to no importance to him. Jumping, along with Phineas, from a tree into an adjacent stream resulted in Gene's first task of proving himself. Performing this feat separated Gene and Phineas from the other boys. He did not know it then, but the tree symbolized Gene's?artillery piece,? for his war against Phineas. With each jump from the tree Gene developed hateful and competitive feelings toward Phineas. Gene constantly felt he had to perform and live up to Phineas's athletic abilities, and he wished it could end. His wish came true all too real.
Months had past with the same vigorous competition between the boys. This competition had slowly turned into a regular occurrence and something inevitably had to occur; the death of Phineas.
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