A Separate Peace

A Separate Peace : End of the Novel Discussion and Review

Gene mentions many times that he feels as if he is a part of Phineas. There is another example in Chapter 12

• "My aid alone had never seemed to him in the category of help. The reason for this occurred to me as the proession moved slowly across the brillant foyer to the doors; Phineas had thought of me as an extensiojn of himself" (Knowles 180).

Multiple Choice

After Phineas is taken to the infirmary, Gene follows him and sits outside his hospital window. Gene does all of the following EXCEPT:

• Gene laughs outside of his window.

• Gene fills out his enlistment paperwork.

• Gene thinks about Phineas talking in Latin.

• Gene imagines Finny's leg bone giving it the "Old College Try"

Fill in the Blank

Phineas has a break in his normally calm persona. Find an example that shows he is upset at Gene.

Open Ended

Read the passage on page 186 where Gene describes feeling as if he "were a roaming ghost" ...give an explanation for the thoughts he is feeling in this passage.

Phineas forgives Gene

"You've already shown me and I believe you" (Knowles 191).

Gene tells Finny he would not make a good soldier. "Phineas, you wouldn't be any good in the war, even if nothing happened to your leg" (Knowles 190).

• You'd ask the enemey to play baseball

• You'd get confused and want to borrow their uniforms

• You would go in one of their command posts and start tp try to teach them English

• "You'd make a mess, a terrible mess, Finny, out of the war" (Knowles 191).

Open Ended

Is it significant that the bone marrow going to Finny's heart is the cause of his death? Explain.

Open Ended

Symbolically speaking, why does Phineas have to die?

Multiple Choice

Who is the "enemey" in this passage?

"“Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there” (Knowles 204).

• Phineas

• Leper

• His enemy within

Multiple Choice

The fact that Finny doesn't believe Gene when he confesses to causing his accident or that there is a war going on demonstrates Finny's inability to:

• recognize the existence of evil

• communicate

• continue with sports

• maintain a true friendship

Multiple Choice

Finny's "separate peace" was:

• his idealism and innocence, which isolate him from the world's evil

• his ability in athletics, which prepared him for war

• his refusal to forgive Gene for what he had done to him

• his realistic attitude toward life, which allowed him to face problems

  squarely

Multiple Choice

Devon students "separate peace" was that

• they rarely discussed the war

• they were safe from fighting in the war until they were 18 and drafted

• they had connections to get safe military assignments after graduation

• their parents understood their problems