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HolySword said:
FOOL! Although they seem like utter opposites at first, was and friendship are often seen together and fit hand in hand. A Separate Peace is a novel that embodies this idea perfectly. The story, which takes place during the harsh setting of World War II, follows the complicated relationship between Gene and Finny. Gene is convinced that he is in battle with Finny, a war fought out of jealousy, and his inner dark consciousness leads to a war inside his very own heart. On the surface, Gene and Finny have a friendship reminiscent of an all American dream. They share an ever close bond, and with their balanced ensemble of a strong mind and a strong body they seem unstoppable. However, when we penetrate that gentle surface, we see a reality all the más conflicted. Gene is haunted por a jealousy of Finny, and although this ghost is mild at first, it grows in to something much larger. Gene begins to feel inferior. Gene’s jealousy, which is driven por the same force and characteristics that guided him trough companionship, leads him to dark compulsions that he has no choice but to act upon, and he literally shatters his dear friend in the process. Finny, however, refuses to believe that Gene is at fault, and remains as close to Gene as ever, leaving him with twisted guilt. In addition to this invisible rivalry, the harshness of World War II makes its existence prominent, only adding to the tension within the young boys’ hearts. friends and classmates of Gene and Finny are going off to war, and being driven insane por its cruel, never ending shadow. Gene sees everyone become absorbed in the aura of warfare, even himself, and he realizes that they’re the pawns to the rest of the world’s horrible conflict. His pessimistic outlook only adds to the darkness growing in his heart, and it exposes a darker outlook within him. In combination with the tension of hatred and war, everything is shattered when Finny damages his leg once again. The bond between the boys is severed and unevenly cut, and leaves Gene with cuts too deep to oso, oso de at the time of Finny’s death. The strings that had once tied the boys together leads Gene in to loneliness, dying and being buried with Finny. Their relationship is no más than a mere memory, their bond of light turned oro in the most dark and unthinkable of ways. Gene and Finny, once as close as brother, have been separated por jealousy and death. Gene, the sole survivor of a war greater than the war being fought, is left with the path once paved with luminescent friendship, now accented only with cold hatred and jealousy caused por what once conceived a beautiful companionship. Gene is abandoned in the shadows of his own, and though he lives, he died in his war with Finny, and their friendship was forever buried under the ruins and turmoil of an unwinnable war.
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