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        <title><![CDATA[do u go to Ramapo high school in franklin lakes
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        <link>http://www.enotes.com/a-separate-peace/q-and-a/chapter-8-what-does-dual-nature-devons-98123</link>
        <description><![CDATA[do u go to Ramapo high school in franklin lakes
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        <title><![CDATA[What question and answer could you ask about a separate peace by john...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What question and answer could you ask about a separate peace by john knowles and it relates to the sentence structure ?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 09:15:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It is, indeed, interesting that John Knowles's "A Separate Peace" is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It is, indeed, interesting that John Knowles's "A Separate Peace" is told by a first-person narrator who does not have the usual intimacy with the action of the story.  Because the narrative is told by an older, more mature Gene Forrester, who is now removed from the action, there is, as critic Ronald Weber writes,

A highly calculated effect,....It indicates a sharply different thematic intention, and one that is rooted in a skillful...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 17:27:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: the use of narration in "A Separate Peace": Use three quotes...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[RE: the use of narration in "A Separate Peace": Use three quotes explaining how this adds to our understanding of the novel, theme and characters]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:22:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[One of the best examples of figurative language enhancing our...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[One of the best examples of figurative language enhancing our understanding of the book comes in at the very end of the novel, when Leper is describing the events at the tree.  Brinker brings him in to describe what happened on that infamous day, and in his description, Leper uses figurative language techniques.  This serves to enhance the descriptiveness and help the reader to imagine it in their heads, and it also completely clarifies the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:37:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Name some examples of figurative language used in "A Separate Peace."...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Name some examples of figurative language used in "A Separate Peace." How does it add to our understanding of the book ?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:34:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dialogue is one of the most effective tools of characterization. Through...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Dialogue is one of the most effective tools of characterization. Through a character's words, we can learn much about his/her impressions of self, as well as how others respond. For example, in this novel, Gene shouts at Finny “You see! Kill me! Now you know what it is! I did it because I felt like that! Now you know yourself!” He vents his anger on Finny, which reveals more about him than anything else. We see that he still harbors the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:01:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The first two paragraphs of the book are marked by a first person...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The first two paragraphs of the book are marked by a first person narrator, who speaks in long, complex sentences. This establishes one point of view from which the story will be told. It also constructs a stream-of-consciousness technique, in which the audience is witness to Gene's thoughts as they occur. For example:

I went back to the Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer  than when I was a student there fifteen years...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:29:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[These paragraphs are constructed of very long complex sentences-in many...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[These paragraphs are constructed of very long complex sentences-in many cases, run-on sentences. This connects to the overall viewpoint of the novel, that of Gene Forrester. The novel is narrated in a controlled stream-of-consciousness mode, in which we are inside Gene's head, yet he is censoring some details the audience and himself. The long, rather rambling sentences reflect his own incoherency and attempt to deal with  his actions.

Only...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:18:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In addition, you may also wish to consider these words of Gene,

...and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In addition, you may also wish to consider these words of Gene,

...and all the other buildings and all the people ther [at Devon] were intensely real, wildly alive, and totally meaningful, and I alone was a dream, a figment which had never really touched anything.  I felt that I was not, never had been, and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me. (Chapter 12 after Gene visits...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 18:51:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In this chapter, war is a reality in the boys' lives, and that reality...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this chapter, war is a reality in the boys' lives, and that reality comes home, literally, as troops move onto their campus.  In a war, there are so many different branches, divisions, and areas that are necessary to function well; behind the scenes of the battles and the front is an army of messengers, communications, mechanics, and other technical and mechanical necessities.  The division that gets put onto the Devon campus belongs to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 18:09:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "A Separate Peace" how was the war literally moved onto the Devon...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "A Separate Peace" how was the war literally moved onto the Devon campus in chapter 13?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 17:56:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does the dialogue in A Separate Peace add to our understanding of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does the dialogue in A Separate Peace add to our understanding of the novel's characters and themes?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Notice the short clipped sentences even fragments Gene uses at the end...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Notice the short clipped sentences even fragments Gene uses at the end of the chapter why is this an effective setences structure?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:01:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Describe the structure of the sentences in the first two paragraphs in A...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Describe the structure of the sentences in the first two paragraphs in A Separate Peace. Why are they effective? Use quotes from the book to explain.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:39:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Gene enlists in the navy, but he feels no patiotism, feeling that war is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Gene enlists in the navy, but he feels no patiotism, feeling that war is the result of "something ignorant in the human heart."  This belief causes Gene to be introspective, as the structure of the last three paragraphs evidence.

I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy.  Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.

The...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:38:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[While the sentence structure in the first and last paragraphs of the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[While the sentence structure in the first and last paragraphs of the last three paragraphs is standard, the second to last paragraph is interesting.  Gene begins by stating,

"Only Phineas never was afraid, only Phineas never hated anyone" (204),

and then he begins a new sentence which continues for 14 lines to finish the paragraph.  Its construction is loose--it starts with an independent clause, and then the author piles on information. ...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:13:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Explain the sentence structure, especially in the last three paragraphs...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Explain the sentence structure, especially in the last three paragraphs in A Separate Peace and how it adds to our understanding of the novel.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Describe the structure of the sentences in the last three paragraphs of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Describe the structure of the sentences in the last three paragraphs of A Separate Peace. Why are they effective ?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In their final moments together before he dies, it is Finny himself who...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In their final moments together before he dies, it is Finny himself who manages to find a way to accept Gene's betrayal. After breaking down, Finny cries and struggles to find a way to understand what has happened to him. He says to Gene:

It was just some kind of blind impulse you had in the tree there, you didn't know what you were doing. Was that it?

Gene replies instantly, "Yes, yes, that was it. Oh that was it . . . ." Finny continues...]]></description>
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