"A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

CHAPTER 1
Summary
The narrator of the story, Gene Forrester returns to Devon, a school in New Hampshire that he attended fifteen years earlier. Gene walks around the school's campus, everything seems new and shiny with a fresh coat of varnish as if it is on display. The campus looks the same as when Gene was there fifteen years earlier, it is almost frozen in time. Gene has come back to the school to visit a couple of places that he is fearful of. It is early afternoon in November, the grounds are deserted, and everyone is at sports. Gene wanders his way across a large yard called the Fa…