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A Separate Peace: Finny - How Things Change - Term Papers

A Separate Peace: Finny - How Things Change

In the novel "A Separate Peace," by John Knowles, a boy named Gene
visits his high school 15 years after graduating in order to find an inner peace.
While attending the private boys school during the second World War, Gene's
best friend Phineas died and Gene knows he was partially responsible. Phineas,
or Finny as he was sometimes called, was the most popular boy in school. He was
a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. Gene, on the other hand, was a lonely,
self-sufficient intellectual. Somehow the two became good friends, or so Finny
thought. Gene, unfortunately, was bitten by the green-eyed monster of jealousy.
Gene just couldn't come to grips with the idea that a person of ...

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care what others thought,
like when Finny wore a pink shirt as an emblem after the bombing of central
Europe. " '...Pink! It makes you look like a fairy!' 'Does it?' He used this
preoccupied tone when he was thinking of something more interesting than what
you had said." One time Finny and Gene were at the swimming pool when Finny
noticed that a boy named A. Hopkins Parker had the record for the 100 yards free
style. When Finny realized that A. Hopkins Parker had graduated before they
came, he remarked, "I have a feeling I can swim faster than A. Hopkins Parker."
He was right. Gene was ecstatic that Finny could do such a thing without any
training or anything. All Gene could say was, "You're too good to be true." In
certain ways he was.
Throughout the book Gene knows that Finny has some strong beliefs. The
first three he noticed were: "Never say you are five feet nine when you are
really five feet eight and a half"; "Always say some prayers at night because it
might turn ...

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Added: 6/6/2007 07:58:27 PM
Category: Book Reports
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 1102
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