A Separate Peace: Changes

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snow began to take possession of everything at Devon like the war took possession everything in the world. “Leper Lepellier didn’t suspect this. It was not in fact evident to anyone at first. But Leper stands out for me as the person who was most often and most emphatically taken by surprise, by this and every other shift in our life at Devon,” (85). Anything that happened at Devon was a surprise to him because he never paid attention to anything except things that concerned him. He liked things just the way they were; he did not like change. Instead of busying his time with what everyone else did, he liked cross-country skiing, or as he called it, “touring skiing,” sketching birds and trees, doing things that he could do alone. Leper was not a social person, though he did have a few good friends. He knew how to listen; this is a trait that is admirable about Leper. Not everyone is a listener.
After hearing the two sides of Leper, the one before the war and the one after the ...

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