Character ID
Narrator of the story.
Who is Gene Forrester?
The two places adult Gene visits when he returns to his old school.
What are the marble staircase and the tree?
What is a metaphor?
What is sports?
The conflict between countries occurring during 1942 and 1943.
- Identify the type of conflict, characters involved, and how it is resolved (if it is resolved).
Man vs. man
WW2 - Axis and Allies (for the sake of the novel, mainly US vs. Germany)
In the novel, Gene says it is resolved by the dropping of the "bomb"
The first Devon boy to enlist.
Who is Elwin (Leper) Lepellier?
The reason why Finny invents the story of the imaginary war.
What is: to cover up his feelings of wanting to be a soldier?
"I sensed it like the sweat of relief when nausea passes away"
The symbol that represents the two different sides of humanity: clean and pure versus tainted and corrupted. Could also represent the two sides of human nature.
What are the two rivers that flow between the schools? (The Devon and the Naguamsett)
Type of conflict in which characters must work on clearing a railroad for the war effort.
- Identify the type of conflict, characters involved, and how it is resolved (if it is resolved).
Man vs Nature
Gene, Brinker, Chet Douglass
The boys eventually help to clear the snow off the railroad
The character who jounces the limb.
Who is Gene Forrester?
The setting of the novel: both the school and the state.
What is the Devon School in New Hampshire?
"The ocean looked dead too."
What is personification?
The symbol that represents Finny's inability to face the harsh realities of life and war
What is the marble staircase?
A conflict that exists only in the mind of a character; Character believes he is in a competition with another character.
- Identify the type of conflict, characters involved, and how it is resolved (if it is resolved).
(Percieved) Man vs. Man
Gene and Finny
Gene realizes that Finny isn't trying to compete with him for grades (or anything else).
Who is Elwin (Leper) Lepellier?
The reason why Brinker enlists in the Coast Guard.
What is: so Brinker will never face combat?
"Your brain'll explode if you keep this up"
What is a hyperbole?
The symbol that represents humanity's fall from perfection?
What is the suicide tree/Finny's fall?
The conflict in which one student at Devon struggles between the way he feels inside (jealousy, anger) and the way he portrays himself (loving, loyal).
- Identify the type of conflict, characters involved, and how it is resolved (if it is resolved).
- Man vs. self (Gene)
- Possibly resolved when Finny dies and Gene releases his anger and guilt
Gene's only competition for valedictorian.
Who is Brinker Hadley?
The genre of A Separate Peace.
What is Bildungsroman?
"In the jungle of a boy's school"
What is a metaphor?
The symbol that represents the boys' collective loss of innocence as they learn of the possibilities for deception and corruption within humans?
What is the trial in the assembly room?
A conflict which all boys at Devon face (think 1943).
- Identify the type of conflict, characters involved, and how it is resolved (if it is resolved).
Man vs. Society
The boys versus the draft board and the societal expectation to enlist.
Brinker especially struggles with this conflict, as he does not think it is "his war."
It is resolved when the war ends and the boys no longer have to fight.