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
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Def
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tacit
capacious
contentious
prodigious
inane
inured
inebriating
mordantly
spectral
enmity
latent
clichés
curtly
reverie
idiosyncratic
infinitesimal
sinecure
bantam
puttee
zestfully