A_Separate_Peace

A Separate Peace In the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles, a schoolboy and his friend go through a dramatic struggle that demonstrates the idea that when opposites attract there could be dire consequences. Finny an all around athlete and popular kid has a misfortunate accident when he falls from a tree. Gene a thorough student is annoyed at times with Finny’s wild attitude. Finny is forced to come back to school in a cast and conquer Devon, a New England boarding school, once again. Gene and Finny both benefit from their differences in sports, schoolwork, and following the rules, but they also lose a piece of them and get lost. Finny is naturally talented when it comes to sports, unlike Gene. Gene is in good shape, but he has to train hard to stay fit. Finny, on the other hand, breaks the school swimming record without practicing months beforehand. Gene would have to work hard for months to even begin to think of breaking that swimming record. When Finny has an unfortunate accident, they help each other. Finny is forced to coach Gene to break records when he can’t. Gene uses Finny as his own personal cheerleader telling him that he separate, peace, finny, gene, school, rules, comes, tie, back, out, morning, go, gene’s, differences, devon, becomes, attitude, towards, theory, themselves, swimming, student, starts, sports, record, perfectionist, own, months, meant, lose, little, idea, hard, hand, good, going, getting, forced, following, finny’s, even, each, come, cast, can’t, boys, belt, believes, after, accident, accept