Реферат: Notes For A Separate Peace Essay Research

struggling with existence. Now Finny needs Gene, just as Gene

had needed Finny. The tree, therefore, leads Gene to pain, and out

of the pain comes an emerging knowledge and acceptance of self.

When Gene leaves Devon to join the Navy, he is still in the process

of maturing and accepting what has happened to him at school.

As an adult, Gene comes back to Devon to come to grips with the

power that the tree has held over him during his life. When he

finally locates the tree by the river, it is not so fearful as he

imagined. He notices that it has changed a great deal; like the

narrator himself, the tree has aged and matured, seeming almost

weary.