. I felt better.” ( 45). From then on, Gene starts to become aware of his inferiority towards Finny many varieties. His resentment towards Finny strengthens as he recollects Finny’s achievements in athleticism, significant personality, and his wits that enable him to get away with anything he desires. The statement that he “felt better” knowing that Finny saw him as a rival, suggests that his confidence increased in having such a capable person worry about him as competition.
He may admire some of the traits that finny has that he is Muno2 also jealous of or how Finny is capable of getting away with a lot of the trouble he causes. Gene seems to fall into a more depressive state as World War II goes on and the fact that his friendship is fading with his friend. Something else interesting that happens to Finny is how he starts to become confused with his identity. After the incident with Finny, Gene begins to do some out of the ordinary activities such as wearing Finny's clothing, walking in the dark and the inability to cry at Finny's funeral. It is obvious how Gene had reacted to the incident.
Gene’s inability to trust is a representative of Gene and Finny’s failed relationship. Finny, being the great friend that he is, is always trying to get Gene to enjoy himself. Gene, however, believes Phineas is secretly jealous of him, and is trying to use sabotage as a way to make them equal in the race for valedictorian. Later in the novel, Gene realizes Finny is genuine in his desire to help Gene, not hurt him and guiltily thinks, “And I thought we were competitors! It was so ludicrous I wanted to cry.” (Knowles 66) In addition, after Finny’s fall, Gene tells no one about what he has done.
The destruction of the youth of the boys at Devon corrupts innocence they have within themselves. The moral youth is lost when one understands he reality of the inimical world. Gene realizes that the world is an evil place and he discovers that he has enemies to fight and destroy. He restates his companionship towards his best friend and occasionally contends to the “natural” envy he possesses. Gene admits to his desire to see finny disciplined for his sly behavior at school.
Creed types a suicide note about how everyone makes fun of him and how “people wish [he was] dead” (36-37). Chris felt that he didn’t belong in the town of Steepleton, and nobody knows where he went. In his suicide note, he wrote that Torey has a perfect life. He didn’t mention Ali, his next door neighbor. Rumor has it that she is “passing through high school on her back” (42).
Preface Project To have a best friend is like having a brother or sister that one plays with all the time and loves. In A Separate Peace, John Knowles exemplifies how Phineas and Gene are best friends and spend so much time together. Finny’s chances of ever being a professional athlete are over because Gene’s envious actions toward Finny. After Finny got out of the hospital from his first injury, he helped Gene to get into the Olympics, but once he fell again and died, it was hard for Gene. His best friend was gone because of his rash decision to joust the tree.
“When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.”(Jarrel) This shows the dark side of war which Leper understands is the truth. When he first enlisted in the army he thought war could be fun, clean, and innocent when he film with the American cross country skiing. After joining the army he soon realized that fun does not exist in war and it can make you mad which happened to him by getting a section 8 disband for being crazy. When Leper probably grasp all of the things he would have to do mentally he realized that he could not do it and for that it made him crazy. “Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life” (Jarrel) When going to war a soldier must feel that he or she is six miles from earth and one a distant planet and that right there would make anyone go crazy being pulled out of their everyday life and being pushed in this hell hole called war would be enough for anyone to go crazy and eventually lose their hopes and
Gene and Goerge are left to grieve their best friends death. "I did not cry then or ever abaout Finny. I did not cry even when I stood watching him being lowered down into his family's strait-laced burial ground outside of Boston. Icould not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case." When Phineas passed away, Gene not only lost his best friend, but he lost a piece of himeslf as well.
After he jumps out of the tree, he and Finny start to head back to the school, when Finny tells Gene, “‘...I shamed you into it... I’m good for you that way. You have a tendency to back away from things otherwise’”(18). Gene knows that this statement is true, but becomes defensive; he is trying to be reckless like Finny. After spending more time with him, Gene does start to think and act like Finny, and after an incident in which Finny falls out
Biff and Cory get different vibes as Willy gives support where Troy does everything to put it in a negative light. Willy believes Biff can have a future as a successful athlete but his aspirations of his son’s success becomes destroyed as Cory because of the fact that Biff becomes consumed of his father’s cheating (Casper1010,