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 …showed first 75 words of 1256 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1256 total…War ended in 1946 with the Allies as victors and the Axis powers forever vanquished. We learn that with Finny's death, his outer war with Gene finally ends. But, the death enhances Gene's inner war which doesn't end until 15 years after when Gene returns to the place where it all began, Devon. We finally reach an end to the wars and gain three separate peaces. These three pieces that make John Knowles wonderful vision a whole.