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Essay Grade: 86%
A Separate Peace: Analyzing Themes and Characters
2,011 words, approx. 7 pages
Discusses important themes from the novel A Separate Peace, by John Knowles. Analyzes the major characters, including Finny.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Man's Inhumanity to Man- Separate Peace
1,906 words, approx. 6 pages
Essay analyzes the aspect of man's inhumanity toward man within the novel "A Separate Peace."
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Essay Grade: 89%
The Power of the Mind- a Separate Peace
1,786 words, approx. 6 pages
This is an essay about the book "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles. I write about how the the character Finny has Gene basically in a mind trap and how Gene is the weaker more insecure figure.
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Essay Grade: 83%
Reality and Truth in "A Separate Peace"
1,637 words, approx. 6 pages
In "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles, the characters come to understand the difference between illusion and reality, innocence and experience, and compassion and hatred. Phineas uses denial to protect himself against the reality of war.
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Essay Grade: 86%
A Separate Peace
1,556 words, approx. 5 pages
Analyzes the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles. Describes the relationship between main characters Gene and Finny. Traces the evolution of their relationship throughout the novel.
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Essay Grade: 85%
Does Finny Equal Fun and Brinker Discipline?
1,485 words, approx. 5 pages
A Seperate Peace by John Knowles
Essay is about the main character and their symbolism.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Conflicts that Bind A Friendship in "A Separate Peace"
1,422 words, approx. 5 pages
The characters of Gene and Phineas in John Knowles's "A Separate Peace" emotionally grow and learn from each other despite their conflicts and opposite personalities. Finny and Gene's opposite mindsets help them to learn and value their friendship.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Freudian Psychology in "A Separate Peace"
1,366 words, approx. 5 pages
In the novel "A Separate Peace," John Knowles develops his characters' motivations around the psychology theories of Sigmund Freud. The "Freudian psychology" concepts of the ego, superego, and the id can help the reader analyze and understand the actions and personalities of three main characters: Finny, Gene, and Leper.
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Essay Grade: 83%
A Seperate Peace
1,360 words, approx. 5 pages
In A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, the story takes place during a time of war, but at Devon, an exclusive New England prep school, two friends face a greater war of their own. Gene Forrester is sort of an outcast, much unlike his best friend and roommate Phineas, who he is perilously jealous of.
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Essay Grade: 87%
Envy in A Separate Peace
1,332 words, approx. 4 pages
Throughout A Separate Peace by John Knowles, Gene envies Finny for being so perfect. this envy brings about Gene's jousting the limb.
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Essay Grade: 87%
A Separate Peace Dialectical Journal
1,319 words, approx. 4 pages
It gives quotes taken form the text and puts them under a conflict category. Then it explains the quote as well as its meaning.
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Essay Grade: 86%
A Separate Peace: the Death of a Friendship
1,232 words, approx. 4 pages
Analyzes the John Knowles novel, A Separate Peace. Explores the relationship between characters Phineas and Gene. Details how jealousy destroys their friendship.
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Essay Grade: 92%
A Ruined Friendship in "A Separate Peace"
1,176 words, approx. 4 pages
The friendship between Finny and Gene is ruined in "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles. This is fueled by jealousy and competition over sports, academics and personality differences.
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Essay Grade: 88%
A Separate Peace: A Review
1,137 words, approx. 4 pages
Discusses the novel, "A Separate Peace," by Knowles. Evaluates the main characters and describes who is the best and worst soldier. Concludes that Gene Forrester would make the best soldier because he has enmity and competitiveness inside him.
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Essay Grade: 96%
Separate Peace: Envy between Gene and Finny
1,124 words, approx. 4 pages
A Separate Peace by John Knowles. Essay describes the envy in the novel of "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles between two main characters and how it grows into jealousy and uncontrollable actions that occur and affect the main character for the rest of his life.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Gene Forrester's Battle
1,124 words, approx. 4 pages
Examines the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles. Describes the battles that Gene, the main character, deals with throughout the book. Some are within himself, and some are against friends. These problems are explained through textual evidence from the book.
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Essay Grade: 92%
A Seperate Peace: Does Jealousy Destroy Friendship?
1,123 words, approx. 4 pages
In A Seperate Peace by John Knowles, jealousy destroys the friendship between Gene and Phineas. This essay explores that relationship, and the question of whether friendship is ever possible with jealousy present. Envy versus jealousy is also examined.
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Essay Grade: 95%
Finding Peace
1,080 words, approx. 4 pages
Critical Analysis of A Separate Peace by John Knowles. Includes author biography, plot summary, and how theme is supported by character and setting.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Gene's True Motive
1,019 words, approx. 3 pages
In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, a grown man named Gene Forrester reflects on his past experiences at Devon School in New Hampshire. He narrates his high school memories and describes the interesting relationship between himself and his former best friend Phineas.
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Essay Grade: 92%
One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Treasure
1,011 words, approx. 3 pages
Provides a literary analysis of "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles regarding Finny's loss and what Gene gained.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Phineas in A Separate Peace
1,003 words, approx. 3 pages
It describes the character of Phineas in A Separate Peace by John Knowles.
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Essay Grade: 95%
Rivers in A Separate Peace
965 words, approx. 3 pages
This essay compares/contrasts the two rivers in a Separate Peace and relates them to the larger theme of the novel of good vs. evil.
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Essay Grade: 92%
A Separate Peace
961 words, approx. 3 pages
Essay analyzes the novel "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles.
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Essay Grade: 87%
Loyalty To Friendship
919 words, approx. 3 pages
My essay is about the importance of friendship and how difficult it is to turn on someone's back in an instance (After reading the book A Separate Peace)
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Essay Grade: 92%
Competitive Friendship in "A Separate Peace"
910 words, approx. 3 pages
Plot summary of "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles, which is about a friendship between two very different teen-agers, Gene and Finny, during World War II. In the end, Gene's jealously leads to Finny's death.
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Essay Grade: 83%
Phineas and Gene's Relationship in "A Separate Peace"
895 words, approx. 3 pages
The novel "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles explores the pressures on them to be soldiers in World War II.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Finny's Illusions
886 words, approx. 3 pages
Essay describes the illusions in which Finny lived his life at the Devon School.
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Essay Grade: 96%
The Loss of Finny's Flow in "A Separate Peace"
863 words, approx. 3 pages
In "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles, Finny's "flow" is interrupted due to the parallel between the metaphorical and the medical explanations of his death.
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Essay Grade: 75%
Literary Elements in a Seperate Peace
863 words, approx. 3 pages
John Knowles uses abundant examples of personification, similes, and symbolism in his novel, 'A Seperate Peace'. These stylistic tools, more often than not, are used to better communicate the ideas of peace, growth and more open communication.
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Essay Grade: 91%
A Separate Peace Vs. Dead Poet's Society
862 words, approx. 3 pages
Compares "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles to "Dead Poet's Society" by Peter Wier, which are both similar in concepts.
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Essay Grade: 88%
A Separate Peace Symbolism
858 words, approx. 3 pages
Analyzes the novel A Separate Peace, by John Knowles. Summarizes the story plot. Explains how childhood, adolescence, and adulthood are symbolized in the novel through the character's actions and thoughts.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Relationships in "A Separate Peace"
832 words, approx. 3 pages
Examines friendships and other relationships in "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Character Analysis in "A Separate Peace"
827 words, approx. 3 pages
A Separate Peace by John Knowles. The essay goes into detail about the five main carictors in the book.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Analysis of Chapters 1-3 in "A Separate Piece"
826 words, approx. 3 pages
Provides a description of the characters during 4 main events of the first 3 chapters in the novel "A Separate Piece" by John Knowles.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Gene Forrester in John Knowles' A Separate Peace
815 words, approx. 3 pages
An analysis of the effects of war on Gene Forrester in John Knowles' novel A Separate Peace. Gene in 1942 is a sixteen-year-old student at Devon School, enjoying his final "golden year" of carefree innocence before he is drafted and is completely transformed by the prolonging effects of World War II.
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Essay Grade: 89%
It Takes Two
793 words, approx. 3 pages
Essay discusses the personalities of the characters of Gene and Finny in John Knowles' "A Separate Peace."
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Essay Grade: 91%
Passions of Gene and Finny: Athlete Vs. Student
789 words, approx. 3 pages
Essay describes the passions of the two main characters from John Knowles' "A Separate Peace."
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Essay Grade: 86%
Competition in a Separate Peace
776 words, approx. 3 pages
Discusses the novel A Separate Peace. Explores the relationship between Gene and Finny. Details how the competition that erupts between the two serves as the trigger for much of the plot in the novel.
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Essay Grade: 81%
Themes from a Seperate Peace
768 words, approx. 3 pages
Themes from a Seperate Peace by John Knowles.
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Essay Grade: 94%
Significance of the Tree in A Separate Peace
765 words, approx. 3 pages
A comparison between the significance of the tree in A Separate Peace by John Knowles, to the tree in the center of the Garden of Eden in the Bible.
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Essay Grade: 83%
Disparity Vs. Equality
737 words, approx. 3 pages
This is a Compare-Contrast essay over the two main characters Phineas and Gene in A Seperate Peace by John Knowles
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Essay Grade: 88%
Characters' Reactions to War in "A Seperate Peace"
735 words, approx. 3 pages
Each character in John Knowles's "A Separate Peace" reacts to World War II in a different way. Leper Lepellier becomes the first at Devon School to enlist; Finny's denies the war; Gene follows Finny's lead.
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Essay Grade: 89%
Gene Forrester, from "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
705 words, approx. 2 pages
Analyzes Gene Forrester as a dynamic character from "A Separate Peace" By John Knowles.
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Essay Grade: 88%
"A Separate Peace"
678 words, approx. 2 pages
Essay provides an analysis of "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles.
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Essay Grade: 83%
A Separate Peace Theme Comparison
668 words, approx. 2 pages
Describes the major theme found throughout the book A Separate Peace, by John Knowles. Then compares that theme to a current event.
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Essay Grade: 88%
A Separate Peace: A Character Study
655 words, approx. 2 pages
Analyzes the novel A Separate Peace, by John Knowles. Creates character portraits of friends Gene and Phineas. Discusses their challenges in the novel and how they overcame them.
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Essay Grade: 88%
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
647 words, approx. 2 pages
John Knowles' novel A Separate Peace focuses on the inner conflict within the main character, Gene Forrester. Gene struggles to find his true identity while living under the shadow of his friend Phineas. Gene's initial admiration for Phineas turns into a complex war in Gene's mind as he battles feelings of insecurity, jealousy, and hate toward Phineas. That mental war inevitably leads Gene down a destructive path of paranoia and subconscious lying.
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Essay Grade: 83%
A Separate Peace: Literary Analysis
646 words, approx. 2 pages
In the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles, friendship is a major but complicated theme. This idea is expressed through the relationship between two boarding school boys, Gene and Finny. As narrator, Gene does not always correctly understand or trust his friend, and this becomes an important part of the plot in displaying the joys and tragedies that can accompany a friendship. Friendship as a theme is used throughout the book in weaving the plot.
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Essay Grade: 87%
Personal Fear and Modification in "A Separate Peace"
619 words, approx. 2 pages
This essay is a literary analysis of the book "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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Essay Grade: 81%
Finny Essay
618 words, approx. 2 pages
Finny, in the book A Seperate Peace, is unlike any other character I've ever read about. He is creative, innocent and brave all in one character. Anyone who knows or read about Finny would certainly have to agree.
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Essay Grade: 92%
A Separate Peace
615 words, approx. 2 pages
This essay is about why I think the title is called "A Separate Peace."
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Essay Grade: 92%
Biblical Allusions in "A Separate Peace"
584 words, approx. 2 pages
This essay discusses the Biblical allusions in chapter 4 of the novel"A Separate Peace."
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Essay Grade: 87%
What I Have Learned about Gene and Finny
575 words, approx. 2 pages
This essay provides information on the comparisons and differences of the characters of Gene and Finny from "A Separate Peace" from John Knowles.
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Essay Grade: 75%
A Separate Peace Thesis Paper
559 words, approx. 2 pages
The author John Knowles in the novel A Separate Peace uses the representation of water to show water brings power into people's lives.
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Essay Grade: 86%
A Seperate Place
546 words, approx. 2 pages
A seperate Peace
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Essay Grade: 87%
A Separate Peace
509 words, approx. 2 pages
A comparison of Gene and Finny, and how their differences move the plot of A Separate Peace.
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Essay Grade: 88%
A Separate Peace
492 words, approx. 2 pages
Gene's search for a separate peace.
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Essay Grade: 75%
A Seperate Peace
484 words, approx. 2 pages
A Seperate Peace review.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Complicated Friendship of "A Seperate Peace"
481 words, approx. 2 pages
In "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles, the character Finny helps his friend Gene Forrester mature from a sheltered jealousy-driven schoolboy in a respectable man.
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Essay Grade: 88%
"Finny" Character Analysis
398 words, approx. 1 pages
This essay is about Phineas, or Finny, in the book "A Seperate Peace." It gives three characeristics of Finny and states examples from the book to support these ideas.
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Essay Grade: 86%
A Seperate Peace, Inhumanity to Man
387 words, approx. 1 pages
How the theme friend ship relates to the book, A Seperate Peace by John Knowles.
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Essay Grade: 83%
Gene's Biggest Enemy In A Separate Peace: Himself
385 words, approx. 1 pages
In John Knowles' novel A Separate Peace, the main character Gene is constantly fighting his own private war, in9 both his mind and his social life. However, Gene's biggest enemy is not his best friend Finny, the other students, the war or society; rather, it is himself.
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Essay Grade: 94%
Imagery of A Separate Peace
375 words, approx. 1 pages
Imagery in A Separate Peace by John Knowles.
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Essay Grade: 85%
A Seperate Peace: Why Gene Jounces Finny
364 words, approx. 1 pages
The jealous and rivalry between Gene and Phineas in A Separate Peace by John Knowles.

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