Basics
The setting of A Separate Peace
What is Devon School?
Who is Gene?
A stern headmaster at Gene's school
Mr. Lansbury
Who is Creon?
A character who is innocent and tries to help others
What is a christ figure?
The author of A Separate Peace
Who is John Knowles?
He represents the natural world and his peers make fun of him
Who is Leper?
The crew manager
Quackenbush
The author of Antigone
Who is Sophocles?
Gene thinks that doing this is “too unusual for—not friendship, but too unusual for rivalry”
Finny breaking the swim record
The story is told through this method
What is flashback?
The first to join the military
Who is Leper?
He a rivals to Gene for valedictorian
Who is Chet Douglas
Who is Aristotle?
The meaning of a separate peace
Each has to find it for themselves
A Separate Peace is this style of novel
What is a Bildungsroman?
He calls Gene and Finny to the assembly room
Who is Brinker?
Dr. Stanpole
Aristotle writes every tragedy has these five characteristics
Hubris, hamartia, peripeteia, anagnorisis, catharsis
Not all wars are fought on a battlefield
What is a theme from A Separate Peace?
When Gene jumps off the tree
Mr. Hadler
True or False: Brinker signs up for the ski troops
False
Leper does
What is anagnorisis?
The is war is also part of the setting
What is WWII?
Gene realizes this character was never jealous him
Who is Finny?
True or False
Gene is a confident guy
False
The emotion that the audience feels
What is catharsis?