He is thoughtful and intelligent, with a competitive nature and a tendency to brood. He develops a love-hate relationship with his best friend, Finny, whom he alternately adores and envies.
At the end of the novel, Gene concludes that what made Phineas different was his lack of resentment, lack of fear. Everyone, he claims, identifies an enemy in the world and pits themselves against it. Everyone that is, except for Phineas. Later, from his adult perspective, Gene believes that his war actually ended before he ever entered military service. Gene is the good boy, the theory explains, the student who wants to obey, but is prevented by dark forces beyond his control, represented by Finny.
Most linemen Might think of running the ball, but they don 't usually follow through with the idea, but Moose wanted to run the ball. Yuanyi Yi Per. Before I have choose the book, I have search all the book on the list, but only this book make me want to know what 's happening on the main characters and how he get saved. The main character "Louie Zemperini" was a "bad boy" as story begins, his big brother Pete let he running and ask the school give Louie a chance, that change Louie 's life, and make him want run to Olympic games.
He is happy to have a chance to go to college, but the joy never settles well with Troy, who has disappointment in life that he never plays pro baseball. Troy refuses to allow his son to play football for fear of Cory will suffer racial discrimination. Bono, his best friend tells. Through his book, Dr. Cleamon Moorer guides the readers through an intimate journey about his progression from failure to promise.
Cleamon is from a small town of Detroit with parents, who love him and enforce discipline, but most importantly, they nurture his faith in Jesus Christ. He excelled in academics during both elementary and middle school, however, his mischievousness throughout those years earns him many disciplinary sessions.
Within the pages of A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, the main character Gene goes through a multitude of changes; in his life and in his being. Living at Devon, an all-boys private school in scenic New England, gives his changes even less room to grow and adapt in such a secluded environment. At the center of these dramatic changes is his relationship with his closest friend Finny. In the beginning of the story, Gene has a flashback which he then recalls all of his memories of his times at Devon.
Like when Gene and Finny were best friends, but both Finny and Gene have their difference from time to time throughout the story. Gene, of course, agrees with Finny eventually and does not reveal his clandestine accomplishment. Similar to Gene, Finny is also in denial of reality. Finny denies the existence of the war by inventing the story that World War II had been started by "a bunch of fat old men" who did not want the young "crowding their jobs".
He also denies the fact that Gene had jounced the limb on purpose. He denied both because he cannot accept a reality that does not include him and a painful one respectively. A difference in a friendship usually will not have a permanent effect on the people involved.
Finny is extremely competitive, whereas Gene does not care too much for sports. This is exemplified when Finny creates his own game called blitzball. Gene plays along with the game, but never really becomes interested in the same game that everyone loves. However, Gene wants and loves to study. Finny tries to study but usually gives up. When Gene and Finny are at the beach together, Gene keeps saying that he needs to go back to school to study.
Finny says that there is no need to study and tries to keep Gene at the beach. Are you crazy? However, Knowles did portray some similarities. Therefore, a friendship often implies many similarities, but also has very different aspects of life. Affirmative Action. Air Resistance, Tyres And Friction. Alternative Fuels. American Born Chinese. There Gene sees he has become Finny "to the life. Unexpectedly, Gene feels free, daring, confident — just like Finny. For a moment, Gene has become Finny's double.
In a sense, Gene and Finny have been each other's doubles since the beginning of the novel. In the first description of the boys standing together by the tree, the narrator makes clear that they resemble each other physically to a remarkable extent.
Their heights and weights are nearly identical, although Finny weighs about ten pounds more than Gene. But the crucial ten pounds, Gene notes with envy, are distributed evenly over Finny's body. Finny, therefore, does not look like Gene with extra weight. Instead, next to Gene, Finny's entire physique looks more filled out, somehow more striking. This weight difference, "galling" to Gene, seems to prove that Finny stands as the larger, more substantial, somehow more generous, of the two.
For Gene, then, Finny represents another version of himself, only better and more powerful.
0コメント