A_Separate_Peace

A Separate Peace From Innocence To Experience The novel “a Separate Peace” is greatly dedicated to the adolescent years of ones life. For the duration of these often confusing year’s people make catastrophic mistakes. These gaffes are primarily believed to be vast setbacks in our lives yet ultimately improve ourselves and give us a better understanding of who we are. The characters in this book are used to exemplify this. Elwin Lepellier, a.k.a leper, is a character in “a Separate Peace” who underwent adolescent changes. Quiet and shy; leper is most comfortable when by himself and takes pleasure in exploring the world solo, as he does when he skis to the beaver dam. He maybe a loner because he breaks down under pressure, which often times embarrasses him. When provoked by Finny to jump from the tree he froze. When the ball was pitched to him during a game of blitzball he refuses it. When faced with the strenuous basic training encountered in the army, leper suffers from a mental breakdown and flees from the army. This is the catalyst, which causes a change in leper. His breakdown blurs his reasoning but at the separate, peace, finny, gene, brinker, three, novel, leper, experience, tree, through, out, new, himself, genes, world, life, innocence, friend, finnys, death, character, boys, book, work, while, understanding, two, trial, towards, time, testimony, surprisingly, stories, rules