A Separate Peace by John Knowls Is a classic struggle of man vs. himself and man vs. society. Taking place as a flashback, the narrator Gene Forrester tells of his struggles as a prep school student in the years of his life between age 16, and 17 during the period of WWII. Although Gene Forester the narrator and Finny an athletic roommate are best friends, they have to contrasting struggles. Like the garden of Eden the first …showed first 75 words of 444 total…

…showed last 75 words of 444 total…d others society during the time of war takes place and the overall conclusion that Wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart. By the destruction of His ideal, Finny; Gene only then realizes that a person must only be himself and can not judge themselves on someone else. This is a highly recommended book for every one who enjoys the age-old conflict of WWII and the changes from adolescence to maturity.