Unfortunately, she did not get away so easily. Distracted by the grave events in his life, the football player performed poorly during the championship game, causing the team to lose. Everybody in school treated her as though she was the one to lose the game. After the game the young man goes to trial and loses the case; he was forced to become a registered sex offender and had an restraining order filed against him. This story is a study in how actions often have unintended consequences.
For example some kids would want to commit suicide because they were spreading horrible rumors about them, or some kids are bullying the kid horribly. This happen at in the high school of Ohio, where a kid named Eric Mohat killed himself. He was 17 years old and he was physically harassed everyday at school, in front of teacher and they never really cared whatever happens to him. One day a kid said to him publicly in front of the class “why don’t you just go shoot yourself, no one would care” So he did. This is similar towards Matt’s situation because he was accused for bombing the school and many kids would torture him.
His best friend was gone because of his rash decision to joust the tree. Throughout the story Gene showed jealousy toward Finny when he joust the tree branch to where breaks his leg. After fifteen years of being away from Devon, and fifteen years after there was a war going on, Gene recalled all of his memories from the tree in the woods behind the school. 1. Gene: narrator of novel; protagonist a) Envious b) Jealous c) Love d) Hate 2.
Eddie was told by one of his friends that Angle was the one who killed his cousin and Eddie kind of believes her. Another example is heat. Eddie talks about heat over the whole book. He talks about how he thinks the heat makes the onions that are buried in the ground stronger and that makes everyone cry. Everyone cries because of all the death and the gangs.
KayCee Hartwig P-0 Tragedy Strikes at Devon Private School...DUN DUN DUUUUUN It's curious how an event of pure tragedy can change and effect the life's of millions. In the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles we observe a private school called Devon which is set during the time period of World War 1. Because Finny is such a popular student and has a prominent role in Devon's social structure, his pain impacts not just the students ,but the teachers as well. The students and teachers both are just transfixed by this horrific tragedy of Finny's fall from the tree and later his death when falling down the stairs. Throughout the novel A Separate Peace , Finny is afflicted with pain both physically and emotionally which changes the students and teachers of Devon forever.
Being wrongfully accused caused him to be beaten and exiled out of his society to live a life full of anxiety. Although this story was written in 1916 it still applies to society today since this type of exiling still occurs to those accused regardless of innocence or guilt. Adolph Myers “was meant by nature to be a teacher of youth” and was “much loved by the boys of his school” (Anderson 1). Meyers’s dedicative actions such as when he “had walked in the evening or had sat talking until dusk upon the schoolhouse steps” with the boys of his school, were once praised (Anderson 3). At first “the stroking of the shoulders and the touching of the hair were part of the schoolmaster’s effort to carry a dream into the young minds” (Anderson 3).
The Columbine massacre, caused by the devious and hatred filled minds of two young individuals, claimed the lives of many other students and also made the U.S. to take a better look at how unprotected the schools are. The massacre occurred on Tuesday, April 20,1999, at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado. Two students, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, embarked on a shooting rampage, killing 12 students and a teacher, as well as wounding 23 others, before committing suicide. The actual shooting lasted from 11:19 am to 11:42AM. The two walk through out the school shooting anyone that they saw fit to shoot.
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 novel implicitly associates this realization of the necessity of a personal war with adulthood and the loss of childhood innocence. For most of Gene’s classmates, World War II provides the catalyst for this loss, and each reacts to it in his own way—Brinker by nurturing a stance of boldness, for example, and Leper by descending into madness. Gene himself, though, states that he fought his own war while at Devon and killed his enemy there. The obvious implication is that Finny, as the embodiment of a spirit greater than Gene’s own, was his enemy, casting an unwavering shadow over Gene’s life. One might alternatively interpret Gene’s statement to mean that this enemy was himself, his own resentful, envious nature, which he “killed” either by knocking Finny from the tree or by obtaining forgiveness from Finny for doing so.
The tree represents two things to Gene. It was the start of his friendship with Phineas, and it was where he snapped. The marble staircase symbolized the hate that Gene felt towards Phineas and in the end it accidentally got Phineas killed. In the book, Waiting for Normal, conflict would be a literary element that proves