This character can be best described as cautious and envious.
Who is Gene Forrester?
100
This is the first symbol the reader encounters. It represents, to Gene, as a sixteen year old, fear, and as an adult, change.
What is the tree?
100
This is the state in which the story takes place.
What is New Hampshire?
100
Finny's success in these two areas cause Gene to become very jealous and envious.
What are athletics and charm (the ability to "get away" with breaking rules and making friends)?
100
At some point in the novel, all of the boys experience this emotion. This emotion is explored by Knowles in a variety of ways, including through the war, Leper's instability, and Gene causing Finny's fall.
What is Fear?
200
Gene believes that, throughout the novel, this character is "out to get him."
Who is Phineas (Finny).
200
This game symbolizes the individual struggle/challenge each student faces.
What is Blitzball?
200
These two places inject fear into Gene even as he returns to Devon as an adult.
What are the staircase and the tree?
200
This is the type of conflict Gene experiences after he causes Finny to fall from the tree.
What is internal conflict?
200
This theme is explored through Gene and Finny's relationship when Finny lives vicariously through Gene after the tree incident and when Gene puts on Finny's clothes and finds inner peace in doing so.
What is codependency/identity?
300
This character is best described as fearless and friendly.
Who is Finny?
300
This act gives Gene great relief and symbolizes his uneasiness with himself and his identity.
What is putting on Finny's clothes and imagining being Finny?
300
These are some of the adjectives Gene uses when describing the tree. These adjectives also reflect his fear of the tree. (give two!)
What are "lone spike," "huge," "black," "tremendous," "artillery piece"?
300
This is the conflict between Gene and Brinker.
What is Gene's refusal to enlist in the army.
300
A Separate Peace takes place during wartime, and although no shot is fired, Knowles emphasizes that war takes place in this area.
What is "inside all of us" or "inside the human heart."
400
This character attempts to persuade Gene to enlist in the army with him.
Who is Brinker?
400
This celebration acts as a symbol of joy and as a reprieve from reality during the winter months.
What is the Winter Carnival? (Put together by the one character who represents peace: Phineas).
400
These are two examples of how Knowles uses setting to reflect the mood at Devon and of its students.
What is the weather: cold and strict during the winter, carefree and fun during the summer.
400
The students at Devon must constantly battle the external conflict taking place in the outside world, and although it doesn't seem to directly affect the characters at the beginning of the novel, it does affect many, if not all, of the boys by the end.
What is World War II?
400
This theme is apparent when Gene causes Finny's fall, the students are affected by World War II, and the characters realize not everything in life is pleasant and agreeable.
What is loss of innocence?
500
This character collected snails, liked trees, and could be best described as quiet and gentile.
Who is Leper?
500
These two symbols represent internal war and internal peace, respectively.
What is World War II and Phineas?
500
Among other ways, this is how the war affects Leper.
What is causes him to have an emotional breakdown?
500
Gene struggles with this internal conflict when he visits with Finny after the tree incident.
What is confessing that he shook the tree branch?
500
This is the type of persuasion that uses misinformation and distorts facts in order to convince a large amount of people to believe or act in a certain way.