A Separate Peace Enemies
A Separate Peace - EnemiesLife is a war for everybody with may difficulties and enemies. Everybody experiences the harsh reality of life’s struggles externally and internally. On thing that makes people win their wars are their hopes and those who belive in themselves. In John Knowles’ novel, A Separate Peace, the main character, Gene, faces internal and external wars and tries to perceive who it the true enemy.
Gene has many different enemies. Of all of Gene’s enemies, Finny is his greatest and truest enemy. Gene was jealous of Finny’s abilities. He wanted to be athletic and charismatic like Finny. “If Phineas pressed hard enough, that there might be an flow of simple, unregulated friendliness between them, and such flows were on e of Finny’s reasons for living.” Gene was jealous of the way Finny was able to talk his way out of trouble using diplomacy. Gene was also envious of Finny’s athletic abilities such as swimming and Blitzball. To deal with his problem, Gene had jounced the limb of the tree from which he and Finny were going to jump. “Holding firmly to the trunk, I took a step toward him, and then my knees bent and I jounced the limb.” Gene was really desperate enough to almost kill Finny just to get payback. Gene’s actions had just caused himself more problems.
Gene faces many internal and external conflicts throughout the novel. An example of an internal conflict...
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