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Position:Home>Books & Authors> A separate peace-title?Question: A separate peace-title!? 1st off!.
yes i read the book!. 2nd- even read notes taken by others on the book!. 3rd- Im asked to explain why the title is 'a seperate peace' in the book they say a couple times that Devon is a 'separate peace' from the war!. but i believe that the reason is because of something to do with Gene and Finny!. like together they created a separate peace together!?!? its got me stumped!. its got a deeper meaning i know!Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The book is about the inner wars we wage with ourselves!. Gene battles he's demons and wins over his worst enemy inside himself and thus creates a different, a separate peace!. He can't go back to the inocent peace of childhood, but still he creates peace with himself and the world!. At least that's how I see it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com First, it's a pun!. Lol!.!.!. I just got finished reading and annotating the novel, and personally, I don't care for it all that much!. However, there are several "separate peaces" throughout the novel, all holding the same significant pun!. While the main separate peace is Devon from the war, there are disturbances in the peace at devon, causing more "separate peaces" like the gym, that's a separate peace while the tree might resemble, or symbolize the war!. Keep in mind that Summer and Winter is a symbol for happiness and coming-of-age/depression/identity crises!. Hope I helped!. Www@QuestionHome@Com The real meaning of A Separate Peace lies in its title!. Phineas' imaginary worlds create a peace separate from the world at war, and he invites others — and especially Gene — into this peaceful sphere!. As the champion of Phineas' world, Gene delights in "this liberation we had torn from the gray encroachments of 1943, the escape we had concocted, this afternoon of momentary, illusory, special and separate peace!." In the end, however, Gene arrives at his real peace — if he indeed does — apart from Phineas!. Though he says that Finny's life and death taught him a way of living — "an atmosphere in which I continued now to live, a way of sizing up the world with erratic and entirely personal reservations" — he reaches this atmosphere only after separating himself from Phineas and finding his own identity!. This process is ongoing, and entails Gene's acknowledgment that the real enemy is within himself and, indeed, within each of us: we're all liable to corruption from within by our own envy, anger, and fear!. In the end, inner peace is achieved only after fighting one's own, private war of growing up!. In this sense, the war is symbolic also of the inner struggle from adolescence to maturity!.Www@QuestionHome@Com It is not in reference to the war!. You're right, at Devon, Finny and Gene could run around breaking all the rules and excelling in their own ways when the world was at war!. They had a 'separate peace'- separate because it was aloof from the real world, at war!. But the book wasn't about children escaping realities of war!. Why did Gene grow to hate Finny for a time while Finny was oblivious!? Later Gene had to deal with bigger issues of self-hatred!. Finny was always at peace no matter what was going on!. He was debilitated by injury but would still compete in the olympics, for example!. Gene never had this degree of peace because of his constant internal war!. Reread the last page where Gene talks about how he was always on 'active duty' at school!.Www@QuestionHome@Com its like when theyre in the woods at their winter carnival thing!. it says something about how this was their separate peace!. and yea gene and finny are like getting along without gene thinking finny is trying to hold him back or watever!. so its separate from the war and normal life at devonWww@QuestionHome@Com ya you basically have the idea!. its like a combination!. at devon gene and finny had a seperate peace in the environment that they were in than the outside world!. theres no deeper meaning its pretty simpleWww@QuestionHome@Com I think it just had to do with the war that was going on at the time!.!.like peace and war!. A separate peace, it just had to do with making peace at the war!. I dont think it has to do with Gene and Finny!.Www@QuestionHome@Com do a search on this question, i believe it was asked & discussed recently!. my opinion was that gene had to negotiate peace with himself over what he did to phinny!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I was supposed to read that too!. I think it is because he is a seperate from finny and everybody!.and he has his own peace with himself!.Www@QuestionHome@Com You need to read the notes I've found!. It will really help you!. Thank ya!. Www@QuestionHome@Com |