John Phillips

The Wrath of Jealousy Oftentimes close friends can turn into foes through the aspect of jealousy between the two, and ultimately resulting in a tragic death of the friendship. In A Separate Peace By John Knowles there is a lot of jealousy between one character, Gene. Gene is jealous of Finny in ways that hurt their relationship. Both kids enjoy going to the tree in Devon school, where Gene is driven by his jealousy and hurts his friend. Gene walks to school for the first time after summer break…

In the novel “A Separate Peace” Gene is both the narrator and the protagonist. In this novel Gene tells the story from his perspective. Gene isn't a really nice person he doesn't have any really good qualities. He’s kind of crazy and he's very paranoid. He's also not a very good friend. At one point Gene admires Phineas who happens to be his roommate and self proclaimed best friend. Gene has to work hard for everything and one of the many reasons he's jealous of Finny is because he's great at…

How can anyone really tell the difference between a friend and an enemy? John Knowles wrote a unique book on how friends can become some of the biggest enemies. A Separate Peace’s main characters, Gene and Finny become friends after Gene starts attending Devon. They go through trials in their friendship, one of the trials happens when Gene jumps on the tree branch, by the lake at Devon, and Finny falls off, which breaks his leg, ruining his main love, sports, and his chances of going into the…

During the events in a separate peace by john knowles two boys gene and finny have a silent rival genes intense feeling of aggressiveness strains his relationship with his best friend , finny up until finny's mischance gene feels the he reliably neglects to measure up to finny's athletic ability and appeal despite the fact the gene is really smart head for some reason needs what finny has -- and inspires himself to accomplish it it is a work of human instinct that individuals coldly drive ahead…

he Future is determined by one’s action in the present, So when given a chance to look at the future, people will want to come back to the present, and change their actions for a better future. In the novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Scrooge, the main character, is a wicked and grumpy man to start with. As four ghost visits him, with the ghost of future as the most influential, Scrooge becomes a caring, joyful man. While the all the ghosts are important in the development of…

Thud! Gene looks down and sees a body just laying there with no move. Gene Forrester is the protagonist of the novel “A Separate Peace” by John Knowles and has some conflict just as he’s getting comfortable in his new school, Devon. Elwin (Leper) Lepellier is a minor character who is known as the social outcast of the school. Throughout the book, Gene and Phineas (Finny) become best friends and their friendship takes its toll on each of them. Due to the main conflict of the story, Gene’s…

In reality, how often will somebody encounter a situation where everything worked out exactly how they expected it to? In John Irving’s novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany, the main character, Johnny Wheelwright, references a quote from Thomas Hardy that answers this question: “Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently”. To put it another way, this quote implies that in actuality, things will not usually work out how someone might initially expect it to. The reader can see this motif…

Denial of Reality in a Separate Peace One large recurring theme in John Knowles’ A Separate Peace is the idea that refusing to confront reality causes people to suffer. With World War II as the backdrop for the novel, A Separate Peace pushes this ideology through a once innocent group of boys at a boarding school.In the novel, there are three dynmaic chracters: Gene Forrester, Elwin (Leper) Lepellier, and Phineas. Gene ends up accepting the realities of war, and grows and develops because of it…

important relation that people form in all of their lives. Young children’s tend to fulfill friendships with trust for the rest of their lives. But, sometimes even strong relation can end up like war, between two individual that might risk one’s life. John Knowles best known work “A Separate Peace” is one of the most popular youth and war novel. The novel focuses on two best friends Finny and Gene and their relationship during the time of World War II, a time of great hardships. Gene’s envy…

“ When you love something it loves you back in whatever way it has to love” (Knowles, pg. 111). The novel A Separate Peace focuses on the special bond between the two main characters, Gene and Phineas. Although these two have little in common, they stick together and often obsess over one another. This leads the reader to believe that there are ulterior motives in relation to their close friendship. The relationship between Gene and Phineas is one more than normal friendship because of the…