"A Separate Peace"

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This paper focuses on three passages from the novel. By examining these passages the writer shows how each segment of Knowles' work completes many tasks simultaneously-- each paints an experience, divulges character, conjures moods, promotes narrative, is vibrant with imagery, innovative in technique, and masterfully constructs theme.

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"This passage re-creates the student's experience at almost any school. Everyone, at least once, has envied someone else's gifts. At the same time, however, it shows that Gene is a much darker character, and much more involved in analysis of the world around him than Finny is. Furthermore, by using words like "enmity" and "coldly," Knowles sets the macabre mood that must necessarily be present, in this the scene that creates an emotional foundation for Finny's fall. For, indeed, once Gene discovers that Finny does not share his "deadly rivalry," his envy becomes stronger and more embittered, and it is during this second envy that Finny falls."

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