A separate peace is a great novel by John Knowles about two best friends that go to Devon. Finny is an outstanding athlete while Gene is the intellectual one. Their time together leads them to a tree where Finny falls and is permanently hurt and not allowed to play any sports again. Finny now wants Gene to go to the olympics for him. Finny tells Gene that there is really no war and that it is all made up by some old men. But the reality is that Finny doesn’t want the war to be real because he cannot participate in it.
He has been sending many applications to the army, navy, coast guard and any one else who would take him. No one will accept him because of his injury. When Finny falls on the stairs near the end his fall is eventually fatal. Gene does not want to except it at first but then learns to live with it and returns years later to the school to find himself with an inner peace. Okay so i just found out this has to be longer so what else can i find to talk about? Well it just rained and it probably rained in a separate peace a few times. Okay thats it i have nothing else to talk about im just going to get some words in sorry.
a separate peace is a great book and everyone should read it it really is so good that i read it three times. “Wow” that is alot of times.
