A SEPARATE PEACE BY: JOHN KNOWLES

Set at a boarding school in New England during WWII, two boys learn about the dark sides to adolescence

GENRE

• Fiction
• Young adult fiction
• Bildungsroman

SETTING
The story begins in 1958 but quickly flashes back to the summer of 1942-1943 at Devon school

PROTAGONIST:

• Phineas
• Tough & Ready
• Crippled & Scared

CONFLICT:

• Phineas falls
• Gene thinks he is the cause

ANTAGONIST

• Bricker Hadley
• Sets up meeting
• Enlists Gene

SUB-PLOTS

• Gene&Finnys relationship
• Gene's jealousy
• Phinny's denial
• Gene's phase

CLIMAX
Gene shakes the limb to a tree causing Finny to fall and shatter his leg

RELATION

• Ziya
• Pushing her

WRITER'S STYLE

• Wrote with passion
• Gave characters life
• Accurate writing

CHANGES OF CHARACTER

• Finny
• Tough
• Depressed

THEMES:

• Creation of inner enimies
• Gene only wants to see
• Finny after visiting leper