Comparing Gene's 'Jealousy In A Separate Peace'
Innocent death caused by bleeding green with envy
Wars begin when countries compete to be the unsurpassed leaders of the world. It all starts with a good country that has the finest resources and the top technology. This country does not have to try to be the best; it is born to be, and it lives angelically with other countries. Consequently, the immeasurable greatness of this nation is never loved by all. The weaker countries develop evil jealousy, and hatred for the dominant empire. Soon the wickedness of the county starts creeping out. Mournfully, the powerful country lacks the ability to see the hatred flowing through the veins of the weaker country. As a result of the jealously, a massacre of the superpower takes place, and the once weaker country over takes the superpower. In the same way that envy leads to the termination of a country, if affects people also. People, who do well for themselves in life, are envied by people who do not accomplish the same. This leads to obsessive jealously …show more content…
He is unwilling to admit that Gene would try to hurt him, because he feels Gene is his best friend. "Finny cannot even entertain the idea that Gene would want to hurt him" (McDonald 75). At the end of the novel, a few months after Gene jounces the tree limb that causes Finny to fall, Brinker tries to put Gene on the spot. Brinker tries to pry Leper open for facts on what happened the day that Finny fell. Leper hints that Gene caused the fall. Trying to avoid hearing the truth, Finny tries to run upstairs. But he falls running up the stairs, ultimately resulting in his death (Knowles 177). Various people feel that Finny was in denial and didn 't want to believe his best friend purposely hurt him to save his own innocence (McDonald 73). This is caused by Finny being in total distress when he is forced to admit to himself what the true Gene is like,
Wars begin when countries compete to be the unsurpassed leaders of the world. It all starts with a good country that has the finest resources and the top technology. This country does not have to try to be the best; it is born to be, and it lives angelically with other countries. Consequently, the immeasurable greatness of this nation is never loved by all. The weaker countries develop evil jealousy, and hatred for the dominant empire. Soon the wickedness of the county starts creeping out. Mournfully, the powerful country lacks the ability to see the hatred flowing through the veins of the weaker country. As a result of the jealously, a massacre of the superpower takes place, and the once weaker country over takes the superpower. In the same way that envy leads to the termination of a country, if affects people also. People, who do well for themselves in life, are envied by people who do not accomplish the same. This leads to obsessive jealously …show more content…
He is unwilling to admit that Gene would try to hurt him, because he feels Gene is his best friend. "Finny cannot even entertain the idea that Gene would want to hurt him" (McDonald 75). At the end of the novel, a few months after Gene jounces the tree limb that causes Finny to fall, Brinker tries to put Gene on the spot. Brinker tries to pry Leper open for facts on what happened the day that Finny fell. Leper hints that Gene caused the fall. Trying to avoid hearing the truth, Finny tries to run upstairs. But he falls running up the stairs, ultimately resulting in his death (Knowles 177). Various people feel that Finny was in denial and didn 't want to believe his best friend purposely hurt him to save his own innocence (McDonald 73). This is caused by Finny being in total distress when he is forced to admit to himself what the true Gene is like,