A Struggle for Innocence

Through out the novel, A Separate Peace, by Jonathan Knowles, a conflict between innocence and guilt is revealed. Gene Forrest, the narrator of the story returns to his school Devon, thirty years later to face the haunting memories of a past love-hate relationship. Though many people would argue the fact that Gene's character was not redeemed by the end of the novel, I on the other hand personally hold the opinion that Gene's character was.
When you die to your self, you are dying to your own desires and your own will, and giving that up whether it is for a friend, or for a god. "I did not cry then or ever about Finny. I did not cry even when I stood watching him being lowered into his family's strait-laced burial ground outside of Boston. I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case" (186). Here it is left to interpretation; I believe this where Gene fell into reality. He was no longer in the fiction......

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Title: A Separate Peace- A Struggle For Innocence
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