A Separate Peace Essay The story A Separate Peace takes place at a boy’s boarding school called Devon. Devon was built in the middle 1800’s and is located in New Hampshire. In the story there are two main characters, Gene and Finny, who are linked to other things in the story. For example, Finny is compared to the Devon River and the Summer Session and Gene is compared to the Naguamsett and the Winter …showed first 75 words of 575 total…

…showed last 75 words of 575 total…The dark, ugly water of the Naguamsett to show us the internal conflicts Gene was having. Knowles, the author of A Separate Peace, makes these comparisons to show us the mood in each time period of the story. He also reveals to us Gene and Finny’s personality by relating it to the time period and the rivers. These comparisons are also significant because they show the reader how the character relates to the story.