A Separate Peace
by Camilo Cardinali
1. plot
2. Gene Forrester is a quiet, intellectual student at the Devon School in New Hampshire. During the summer session of 1942, he becomes close friends with his daredevil roommate Finny, whose innate charisma consistently allows him to get away with mischief. Finny prods Gene into making a dangerous jump out of a tree into a river, and the two start a secret society based on this ritual. Gene gradually begins to envy Finny’s astonishing athletic abilities, manifested in Finny’s breaking a school swimming record on his first try. He thinks that Finny, in turn, envies his superior academic achievements, and he suspects that his friend has been taking steps to distract him from his studies. Gene’s suspicions transform into resentful hatred, but he nevertheless carefully maintains an appearance of friendship.
3. climax
3.1. The climax of A Separate Peace is when Gene makes the split decision to jounce the branch of the tree, causing Finny to fall. This is the turning point because Gene's inner conflict (evident in the rising action events of the novel) leads to this momentous event. ... A Separate Peace's dramatic climax is Finny's death.
4. A Separate Peace
4.1. Novel, Learning Novel, Literary Realism, Young Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction
5. Chet Douglass
6. The time of the story is set during Second Word World (ww2). they were very bad and ugly times , and a lot of people suffered for this.
7. The story is set in Devon, in New England..
8. characters
8.1. Gene Forrester
8.1.1. Finny
8.2. Brinker Hadley
8.2.1. Leper Lepellier
8.3. Cliff Quackenbush
8.4. Dr. Stanpole
8.5. Mr. Patch-Withers
8.5.1. Mr. Ludsbury
8.5.2. Mr. Prud’homme