A_Separate_Peace

A Separate Peace A Separate Peace - Gene's Journey Gene Forrester’s in the novel A Separate Pace had a difficult journey towards maturity and the adult world is a main focus of the novel, A Separate Peace, by John Knowles. Gene's journey begins the moment he pushes Phineas from the tree and the process continues until he had visited the tree fifteen years later after he jerked it when Finny fell and broke his leg. Throughout this time, Gene had to become more self-centered and face reality and the future, confront his problems, as well as forgive and accept the person that he is. With the jerking of the limb, Gene realizes his problems and the true person he was inside. Then fifteen years later, when he had revisited the tree, he finally accepts and forgives himself. This journey was a long and painful one. At the end of this long and winding road filled with ditches, difficulties and Gene jerks the limb while Finny is getting ready to jumb and causes Finny's fall and at that moment becomes aware of his inner-self and learns of his true feelings. This discovery came to him back in his room before he and separate, peace, gene, finny, tree, must, limb, jerked, himself, adult, novel, scene, really, person, painful, normal, never, journey, hadn’t, feelings, even, towards, self, problems, perfect, now, long, gene's, fall, way, true, time, through, though, reality, place, out, one, maturity, life, learn, jealousy, jealous, inside, future, face, deal, been