In a book about war, A Separate Peace, many themes and lessons are learned. In the novel, John Knowles expresses good and bad traits about war and the world war. War not only means country vs. country but person vs. themselves and person vs. person. In A separate Peace, John Knowles expresses this theme by Gene’s war against Finny, Gene against society, and the effects of war shown by Leper. Throughout the story Gene, …showed first 75 words of 1395 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1395 total…Ever.” That page describes how bad Leper has been effected by the war and how bad Gene’s savage can be. The effect of war shown by Leper, Gene’s battle against society, and Gene’s battle against Finny, are a few example of what war can really be in the book A Separate Peace by John Knowles. Now you know that war doesn’t mean just but country vs. country buy has many meanings.