A Separate Peace Group

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purple155
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In A Separate Peace," the narrator alludes to specific people or terms realted to world War II. List three.

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Posted by purple155 on Friday January 2, 2009 at 7:23 PM and tagged with a separate peace, characters, details, john knowles, summary.

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  1. ladyvols1 Teacher
    High School - 9th Grade

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    Bobby Zane recommended that they name a game after the Blitzkrieg.  In German, Blitzkrieg was named so because it included surprise attacks, "Lighting fast" rapid advances into enemy territory, with coordinated massive air attacks, which struck and shocked the enemy as if it was struck by lightning. The German military in World War 2 achieved most of its great victories with the Blitzkrieg tactic. This chapter also mentions Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin. In this chapter, even though Gene hated jumping from the tree, he says, “I always jumped. Otherwise I would have lost face with Phineas, and that would have been unthinkable.”

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    http://www.enotes.com/separate/gene-forrester
    http://www.enotes.com/separate/summary
    http://www.enotes.com/separate/themes

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    Posted by ladyvols1 on Friday January 2, 2009 at 7:56 PM

  2. mwestwood
    mwestwood Teacher
    Community / Jr. College

    In Chapter 7 references are made to puttees, coverings for the lower leg that soldiers in the army wore.  Also the pejorative term for a German is used:  Kraut.  An allusion is made about Pearl Harbor, the U.S. naval base in Hawaii bombed by the Japanese on 7 December 1941.  In Chapter 8 the boys speak of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of FDR, and Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of the head of the Chinese government during WWII.

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    http://www.enotes.com/separate-peace

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    Posted by mwestwood on Friday January 2, 2009 at 9:28 PM