A Seperate Piece
A Separate Peace
In his book A Separate Peace John Knowles communicates what war really is. He
uses a number of complex characters in a very complicated plot in order to convey the
harsh, sad, cruel, destructive forces of war. The Characters Gene and Finny are used as
opposing forces in a struggle between that cold reality of war-that is World War II in this
story-and a separate peace. A peace away from the real …
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…Indeed Gene’s reality is the truth: the war is very real and very
destructive.
John Knowles communicates what war really is. He uses complex characters in a
very complicated plot in order to convey the harsh, sad, cruel, destructive forces of war.
Gene and Finny’s relationship that includes the opposition illustrates this fact. Their
relationship is used by Knowles to establish the terrible reality of war in all of its essence.
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