Реферат: A Separate Peace Three Symbols Essay Research

his way out of the mess. However, the winter session causes a sense of

strictness. The sermons now exhort the thought of “what we owe Devon,” but in

the summer the students think of “what Devon owes us” (65). The masters and

class leaders try to enforce continuity, but Gene realizes that resurrecting the

summer session becomes impossible. Finny is not in school, no longer shall the

students have their carefree attitudes, and the class officials and masters now

enforce the rules at Devon. Gene becomes like the winter session by saving a

cold blast for the enemy. The winter lives to destroy the warmth of the summer

and does so by unleashing an unpredictable frigid blizzard. Likewise, Gene

destroys Finny by releasing an uncontrolled jouncing of the tree limb.

Nevertheless, the peaceful time and the war time clearly display the

innocence of Finny and the evil of Gene. During the peaceful time, not one

student thinks about a war. Gene and Finny play blitzball and jump from the

tree, making them both happy. Finny willingly breaks the rules at Devon. Like

the summer session, the rules do not exist, and the student’s minds run wild

with carelessness. Finny’s imagination and creativity explode during the

peaceful time with inventions like blitzball and the founding of the Super

Suicide Society of the Summer Session. However, the war, like the winter

session, brings about confusion and hostility. Students like Leper and

Quackenbush begin thinking about enrolling in the army. Even Gene considers

enlisting until he realizes that Finny needs him. Finny cannot handle the

changes during the winter session. When Gene explains to Finny that a war is

occurring, Finny wonders, “Is there?” (96). Finny refuses to believe in the war

when Gene explains that the war comes before sports. Finny comes to the

conclusion that old fat men in Washingtion, D.C. “make up” the war to trick the

people, and only the fat men understand the trick. The two rivers, the two

sessions, and the two settings, reinforce and clearly display the innocence of

Finny and the evil of Gene.

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