A Separate Peace Themes

War, a destructive force fought between 2 nations destroying their land, and the minds of their troops.Wars have been fought throughout time and are still being fought even to this day, it even shaped history. But war is getting more violent by the moment by this day, especially with our upcoming president. War is violent, chaotic, and affects everyone in a negative way. The book is about a complicated “friendship” that ends up hurting and killing one, the anxiety of war, and even a special type of jealousy caused by two best friends that think they are always better than each other. In a Separate Peace, John Knowles demonstrates how the boys achieve a Separate Peace through the winter carnival yet their prizes and setting are tinged with warlike images.
John Knowles uses setting to prove that there is the war -like images in the winter carnival. Gene said that “The Saturday was battleship gray.” The term battleship is
Even though Gene and Finny try to find peace by making the winter carnival, they figure out that their desire to join the war is desperate. One requirement to be enlisted is that you have to be registered. Even though they are in a period of peace which is the winter carnival, they want to feel brave by enlisting for the war. The book “The Iliad” was one of the prizes. One example is Leper, he was s a quiet person but after enlisting, he turned crazy. But this book can not only help them survive the war but help them find peace. There was a carnival game that tried to make people worthy for the army by making them fit, and the prize was a dumbbell. It is a fact that the military does not want weak teens that are not fit. The seniors are already working hard to get fit for war. So Gene and Finny think that as well since they are desperate to join the war. Though the prizes give the boys a more positive view of enlisting into the war, feelings like hate and fear still run through their