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A Separate Peace

Chapter 1:

Exposition

Setting: Devon School

Time Period: Flash backs to 1940’s (WWII) assoc. w/ fear

Characters:

 Gene Forrester- Narrator, best friends with Phineas.


 Phineas “Finny” – Roommate w/ Gene, Daredevil- dares others to jump off of a tree into the
river.
 Finny’s friends- Elwin “Leper” Lepellier, Chet Douglass, and Bobby Zane

Devon School: Prepares boys for the war.

Places that are assoc. w/ fear: stairway, tree

Tone: dreary, sterile, fear

War is represented by the boys leaping off the tree- adventure and bravery.

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