Finding Truth A Separate Peace
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Even when people fight against things and try to convince themselves of something else, they will eventually realize the truth. Whatever people do to try to keep themselves from the truth, whether it be lying, making up stories, or denying it; they cannot control the fact that it's there and "the truth hurts" (88). In John Knowles, A Separate Peace, some of the Devon boys desperately try to block themselves from the truth, but it eventually finds them. When Brinker was accusing Gene of knocking Finny out of the tree he said, "rest assured of that, my son. In our free democracy, even when fighting for its life, the truth will out" (88).
The first time this occurs is when Finny does not believe that there is a war. Even though people tried to convince him there really was a war, he would not believe them; he thinks that the war is not real. He believes that the war is made up by "fat old men who don't want [young men] crowding them out of their jobs" (115). Finny says, "don't be a sap, there isn't any war" (115). Later on after finding out that Leper went crazy because of the war he decides that there really must be a war, saying, "when I heard about Leper, then I knew that the war was real, this war and all the wars...