ASP #1 Summary

InĀ A Separate Peace, Gene Forrestor narrates the story from fifteen years retrospect. Gene starts telling stories about how him and Finny always broke the rules, and then he starts to tell about the tree jumping. The tree jumping turns into a nightly thing and Gene thinks Finny is trying to take him away from his studies so he can be better than him. Gene becomes angry at this thought and pushes Finny out of the tree to cause him to break his leg.

Then the novel moves to the semester where Finny is not at Devon. While Finny is gone, Gene tries to go tell Finny that he purposely pushed him out of the tree, but Finny did not want to admit that his friend tried to hurt him, so Gene left and went back to Devon. Finny comes back the winter semester and tells Gene that he is apart of him. Finny trains Gene up to be ready for the 1944 olympics, which was a dream of Finny’s. One night, Brinker and a group of guys come and bring Gene and Finny to the assembly hall to be trailed. Brinker wanted Finny to know that Gene meant to hurt him. Once Finny found out about this, he stormed out of the room and ended up falling down the stairs and breaking his leg again. Finny later dies during the surgery to prepare his leg. Gene does not feel any emotion towards Finny’s death, but he rather feels peace, because he killed his enemy.

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