A Separate Peace ReviewChapters 1-7

Chapters 1-3 Gene comes back after 15 years School name: Devon State: New Hampshire War: World War II Pink shirt: Emblem for war/Tie as a belt THE TREE!!!: came back to see it…Finny

fell out of it…Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session

Continued Gene: Narrator/Protagonist Finny: Antagonist-Best Friends…Roommates Convinces Gene to jump out of the tree Finny is a fast talker-gets them out of trouble SSSSS: Jump out of the tree Gene almost falls-Finny saves him. Doesn’t owe

Finny anything…Finny talked him into it. Gene doesn’t stop b/c he doesn’t want to lose

face w/Finny.

Continued BLITZBALL!!!-Game by Finny…run with

ball until someone knocks you over. Breaks the swimming record-A Hopkins

Parker. No one to know…Just wanted to break record for fun.

Gene and Finny go to the Beach. Ride bikes there….go swimming. Finny says “We’re best pals”…He cares…awww.

Chapters 4-5 Gene’s late coming back to school. He fails

Trigonometry test. Finny trying to wreck/sabotage his grades!

Leper will jump from tree. Thinks Finny is jealous of Gene b/c he makes good grades.

FIGHT!!!-Studying Finny says we’ll do a double jump! Gene jounces/bounces the limb!!! Finny falls and

there is a THUD!!! Gene jumps: Confidence, Happiness, Peace

Continued Finny goes to infirmary Finny asks Gene…They talk. Gene tries to

confess…but Dr. Stanpole enters. Finny goes home to Boston. Gene home for the

summer (South). Visits him in Boston and confesses!!! Finny

reacts angrily…Hit him…kill him…leave. Gene says he must have been CRAZY!!!

Chapters 6-7 Gene is at Devon “If you broke the rules, then

they break you.”-about Finny. Gene won’t play sports b/c Finny can’t play. So

he goes out for assistant crew manager FIGHTS Quackenbush Long Distance call from…Finny. “If I can’t play

sports you’ll play for me.” Meets Brinker Hadley from across the hall.

Brinker says Gene hurt Finny on purpose.

Continued They go to the Butt room! There is a trial.

Gene yells at a kid. He leaves before he smokes…b/c he is shaken by the interrogation.

Pick apples and shovel for the railroad. Brinker talks about enlisting NO Gene won’t b/c Finny needs him.

People and Places to know Brinker Devon Gene Knowles Leper FAT MEN

Naguamsett Phineas Quackenbush Dr. Stanpole

Last bit to study Literary Elements

First Person: I Mood Theme

Vocabulary: IN CONTEXT

Voc

abul

ary:

Def

ine!

 

tacit

 

 

capacious

 

contentious

 

prodigious

 

inane

 

inured

 

inebriating

 

 

mordantly

 

spectral

 

enmity

 

latent

 

 

clichés

 

curtly

 

reverie

 

 

 

idiosyncratic

  

 

infinitesimal

 

 

 

sinecure

  

 

bantam

  

 

puttee

 

 

 

zestfully