George Herbert once said "When war begins, then hell openth." In 1944, a great war was happening overseas, and in A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, there is another war raging. At the Devon school, during World War II, Gene Forrester experiences his own war, which is sparked in the beginning, causes him to lose friends, and ends suddenly.
Gene's war, like World War II, was sparked by a sudden event that followed a period of increasing tension and uneasiness. In A Separate Peace, the war at Devon is sparked by a single event, but there were many other things leading up to that event. W…
