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A Separate Peace: Contrasting Gene And Phineas And The Struggle For Power
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John Knowles' A Separate Peace depicts many examples of how power
is used. In A Separate Peace, two opposing characters struggle for their
own separate might. Gene Forrester, the reserved narrator, is weakened by
his struggle for power. While, Phineas was inspired by his own power within.
The nove ....
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....eas "might have rather enjoyed the punishment if
it was done in some kind of novel and known way" (p.20). Even with
negative actions, Phineas can enjoy a situation if it presents something
new and different. It is this spontaneous and contradictory nature which
Gene cannot understand and which ultimately contributes to his attempting
to destroy Phineas.
Gene Forrester, after being gone for fifteen years, returns to the
Devon School to recollect his past memories of the summer session when he
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