A Separate Peace is a novel about two boy's
lives and how they evolve during the course of WWII. The story was written by John Knowles, who
also left home to attend a school at the age of 15. The story involves many instances in which
the barriers between friendship and rivalry are cited. One of the main characters of the story,
Phineas, often demonstrates that it is important to be yourself and try to make
the best out of a situation whenever confronted by one. Phineas is athletic, friendly, and competitive.
Phineas is a very athletic person. He seems to be good at any sport he tries and
all of it comes without practice or post-effort. During the course of his stay at Devon,
Phineas wins several awards in all the sports he plays in. One day while the others are away, Phineas
and Gene go to the gym and Phineas breaks the school time trial record for
swimming. If Gene was not injured by his
fall out of the tree then he would be able to compete in the Olympics.
Phineas is a friendly and outgoing kind of
person. Finny was always friendly and
respectful towards other people and whenever one of his classmates such as
Leper was being isolated from the rest of group, Finny would take up for him. Even though Gene made Finny break his leg,
Finny still didn't hold anything against him and refused to believe what
happened. Finny has always been friendly
to others due to his outgoing personality.
Finny is a competitive sportsman like
person. Whenever Finny sees a challenge
that has never been achieved he will try to do what the others could not. During the summer when there was nothing else
to do, Finny decides to make a club.
When the club meets, all the members have to jump out of the tree to be
initiated. Finny will always stand up to
challenges set by others and succeed in breaking them.
Although Finny is not very smart, his athletic
talents make up for it. With Finny's
outgoing attitude and friendliness, he can usually talk his way out of most
situations that arise while at Devon.
When Finny died after breaking his leg, the world lost a great person.
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