A Separate Peace Group

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vladik1
vladik1
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High School - 9th Grade

What are some obstacles that the characters had to overcome in The Separate Peace book?

Each character or any that you might know.

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Posted by vladik1 on Thursday August 6, 2009 at 8:25 PM and tagged with characters, obstacles, overcome.

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  1. speamerfam
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    The narrator of the story, Gene, has internal and external obstacles to overcome, and I will give you one example of each.  Gene is an introspective kind of person, perhaps what we may call a "nerd" today.  He is quiet and studious, and it seems his life has been unremarkable in most ways.  But once Finney enters the scene, the reader can see that Gene's attitude toward Finney is conflicted.  He admires him, but he envies him, and this conflict plays itself out in a tragedy that Gene will spend the rest of his life trying to overcome.  I am not sure that war can properly be characterized as an "obstacle," but the impending war provides a tension that Gene struggles with.  He is afraid of war, but the world around him urges him to enter the world with courage and pride. 

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    Posted by speamerfam on Friday August 7, 2009 at 7:48 AM