a seperate peace
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In A Seperate Peace, written by John Knowles the story takes place in a boarding school called Devon and is the story about the boys that go there during WWII. He had a friend named Finny who he believes that he caused his friend to break his leg and later his death. While the rest of the boys talk about going to war Finny talks about going to the Olympic's . Gene feels that he could never measure up to Finny and is sometimes angered and even jealous and resentful. Gene will still follow Finny anywhere even jumping from a tree limb into the river. Finy said i best when he said to Gene,"just you and me", when they first met and decided to jump from the tree the first time.
Although Gene feels jealous of Finny and even at times thinks that Finny is trying to get him into trouble he still went along with his ideas. When one day Finny wanted to jump into the river again from the tree, Gene didn't want to and felt Finny was forcing him into it. Finny told Gene, "let's go, you and me". As Gene climb the tree after Finny he shook the limb and Finny fell breaking his leg...