Johnknowles Stories

just a fanfic of a separate peace idk the book seems kinda fruity 🤭

John Knowles' beautiful coming-of-age tale, "A Separate Peace," is written in the main character, Gene Forester's point of view. Throughout the novel readers find themselves falling in love with the charismatic best friend, Phineas. As any adolescent will, Gene encounters obstacles that leave him and his opinions somewhat muddled. His thoughts and state of mind affect how readers view certain scenes in the novel. In his hysteria, Gene makes wild assumptions that misguide readers. We are lacking a second opinion. There are many minor controversial scenes in this book that leave the reader wondering what Phineas is thinking. I took it upon myself to select 2 scenes in which Phineas' true intentions are not clear. In addition to that, I wrote an extra scene, that cannot be found in the book. This scene brings some sort of justice to Finny's untimely death- In the final scene I attempt to depict Finny's last moments.

A Separate Peace is a coming-of-age novel by John Knowles, published in 1959. Based on his earlier short story "Phineas", published in the May 1956 issue of Cosmopolitan, it was Knowles's first published novel and became his best-known work. Set against the backdrop of World War II, A Separate Peace explores morality, patriotism, and loss of innocence through its narrator, Gene. Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete.