If you've read 'A Separate Peace' lately, come here? Help?

Question

Ok, I don't really understand these points in the book:

How did Brinker's attitude change about the war over the year?

What is actually Gene's 'seperate peace'?

These are loosely based questions on my assignment, so you're not giving me the exact answer, just a 'base', if you will. I give thumbs up to all answers. :)

Answer 1

Sorry if I'm being rude but

can you peeps plz answer my question for me??

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Answer 2

I love it when people respond by plugging their own question whether than actually answer the question. Seriously, if you don't know, don't answer.

Anyway, to actually answer you're question:

1. Brinker is a pretty dependent guy. He wanted nothing more than to join the war when he thought he had Gene joining with him. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that once Gene said he wasn't joining, Brinker sort of changed his mind. He got really cynical about it, in a way, probably from listening to Phinny's "there is no war" theory. This is the general idea I got, but I don't pay much attention to Brinker when I read it. I don't like him much.

2. Gene's "separate peace" could be one of many things, but I tend to see it as the moment right before Phinny's death, when Phinny kicks Gene out of his hospital room from finding out Gene pushed him. With Phinny knowing all this, Gene could kind of "relax" a little, and he didn't have to worry about Phinny's mostly melancholy mood. I know it sounds a bit harsh, but once Phinny died, Gene had no more worries.