John Knowles novel, A Separate Peace, portrays wars on three distinct levels.
These levels could be described as outer, inner, and world. There is a very good
definition of these wars at the closing of the novel which shows us the levels:
'I could never agree with either of them. It would have been comfortable, but I
could not believe it. Because it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations
and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in
the human heart.' (page 193)
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