Civil Peace: Introduction • Print • PDF • Cite • One of Africa’s foremost contemporary authors and spokespeople Chinua Achebe has always taken as a primary concern understanding and accurately depicting the African people. In 1964‚ he wrote that the writer’s duty ‘‘is to explore in depth the human condition.’’ In his pre-civil war novels‚ Achebe focused on the culture of his people and their emergence from colonial powers. However‚ with the outbreak of the Nigerian civil war‚ Achebe
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Green-eyed Friendship In John Knowles novel‚ A Separate Peace‚ Knowles proves through an adolescent relationship‚ that in order to have a reliable friendship‚ one must accept another completely‚ revealing that jealousy can not co-excist within a friendship. Jealousy plays a major role in the deterioration of the relationship between Gene and Finny. Gene has a growing jealousy towards his bestfriend Phineas. Because Finny always “gets away with everything” and can be whoever he wants
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Peace and Quiet I like the saying: “The grass is always greener on the other side.” To me‚ it means that we tend to believe that life in places different from our town is for some reasons better. Considering this‚ I have tried to be content with the town where I resided throughout my life – a regular city in the center of the United States. However‚ due to various situations which would take too much time to describe here‚ I started to think about changing my life and moving to another area. I have
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News • Support • Contact You are here: 1. Home 2. Issues 3. Articles 4. War‚ Propaganda and the Media 5. The Peace Journalism Option The Peace Journalism Option This article is a reposting from the old POIESIS web site (which has now been replaced by some search engine site). They ran a series known as Conflict and Peace Forums and in 1997 and 1998 provided transcripts. Part 1 (1997) is provided here. It is reposted here because some articles on this site cited
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As famous rapper Eminem once said‚ are you calling me‚ are you trying to get through. Are you reaching out for me‚ I’m reaching out for you. In John Knowles’ fictional novel A Separate Peace‚ the lives of three young men‚ Gene Forrester‚ Elwin “Leper” Lepellier‚ and Phineas‚ are shaped and constructed by the world war that is happening along side them. In their final year at the Devon school‚ the reality of the war becomes astonishingly more apparent when their detached unity is fragmentized. Each
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money‚ life goes on as usual for Jonathan because ’Nothing Puzzles God’‚ meaning that the robbery has a greater meaning in God’s eyes than how it seemed to Jonathan. Character overview Jonathan Iwegbu Jonathan Iwegbu‚ the protagonist of "Civil Peace"‚ is the optimistic nucleus of the entire narrative. Despite the recent devastation of the Biafran War‚ Jonathan exhibits a happy tone in the face of death. Jonathan’s optimism is first demonstrated in the first paragraph when he exclaims how happy
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Autumn Bartlett A Separate Peace One of the main focuses in the novel A Separate Peace is the friendship of Gene Forrester and Phineas. One would assume that two completely opposite people wouldn’t have such a strong relationship. They both have different views of the world. Where one would find strength the other finds weakness. With having two opposing personalities as the main characters‚ it’s easy for the reader to identify with one more than the other. It also gives
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Well‚ you should be. In the First World War‚ one thousand six hundred and forty nine Canadian soldiers under the age of eighteen risked their lives‚ and three hundred and sixty five of these soldiers died for our freedom. In the novel‚ “A SEPARATE PEACE”‚ by John Knowles‚ The main character Gene undergoes various situations that are influenced by the war‚ including the incident of Gene jostling the branch causing Phineas to fall from the tree‚ the participation of contributing to the war‚ and the
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Al Abdel-Razzaq A Separate Peace (rough) There are many well-known themes in the book A Separate Peace. One of the most themes is a coming of age for the boys who live and learn at Devon school. For some boys at this school‚ a coming of age means more opportunities‚ and for some others‚ means a chance to go from being a boy‚ to becoming a man. A large contradiction in this book is innocence vs. ignorance. For some boys the innocence will be destroyed in order for a coming of age to take place
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October 22‚ 1943 Gene Forrester Time capsule letter Devon High School Dear ‚ What do you remember from Devon? Do you remember your growth‚ your maturity‚ and your fraternity? Hopefully you will now remember the easy times of peace and your trials from Devon. The tree: the shrunken giant‚ my worst nightmare‚ and best tutor. It taught me many things about life‚ and that is to respect its teachings. Its broken branch‚ dead and weak‚ represents the tree as a whole. No longer high and mighty
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