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A Separate Peace

Page history last edited by PBworks 16 years, 6 months ago

Block 6

 

Plot

Characters

 

Quotes

1. Growing up means taking responsibility for your actions

 Gene not admitting to what he did at the assembly

 

Making up a lie about the Butt Room

 

Facing up to the consequences (Finney's death)

 Gene facing up to what he did to Finney

 

Leper running away from the army

 

 "My purpose from the first -- to become part of Phineas" (85)

 

"You want to break something else of me?" (184)

2. Your view of history changes depending on what's happening to you personally

 Leper leaving school to go to the army (goes insane)

 

The boys are getting trained to go to war

 

Gene getting in the fight with Cliff Quackenbush

 Finney saying the war was "fake"

 

Leper leaving the army

 

 Gene meeting Leper (150)

 

"...if he was indeed the enemy" (204)

 

Gene things Finney is out to ruin his chance at valedictorian(54)

3. Symbolic things that happen give larger meaning to our experience

 Finney getting away with wearing the pink shirt (Gene changing his attitude)

 

Leper talking to Gene about the war

 Leper going crazy

 

Finney falling off the tree

   
4. It's hard to go back to the past because we often don't want to face the truth

 Gene trying (and failing) to tell Finney what really happened

 

Finney doesn't want to hear Gene's confession

 

Trial at the assembly

 Finney confusing what happened at the tree (saving Gene)

 

Trying to find out what happened to Leper in the war

 

 "I was thinking about you..." (68)

 

"Truth hurts, eh" (88)

 

"Of course you damn fool" (70)

 

"I could not escape the feeling that this was my own funeral" (194)

5. Friends change who you are

 Gene starting to change after he meets Leper

 

Gene getting jealous over Finney being athletically successfully

 

 

 Finney taking Gene to the beach

 

Finney training Gene for the Olympics

 

 "You're going to play them for me" (85)

 

"What was I doing up here anyway?" (173)

 

 

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