Essays Tagged: "Brinker"

this essay will be talking about the two main themes played in the novel A Separate Peace.

beside me, y- I don't know, I had a kind of feeling.......it was a crazy idea." Also when he tells Brinker that it is just an accident. -"Oh you mean Gene? - He wasn't in--" Finally, hope is the main ... id that Finny knows about what exactly happened at the tree during Finny's fall. This is shown when Brinker comes to ask Gene if he is enlisting at the war. He knocks on the door and he finds that Fin ...

(5 pages) 59 0 3.4 Jun/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

A Separate Peace: Character Analysis, Plot Summary, General Analysis, and Alternate Ending

ny predicament. Finny sees no other human as an enemy and does not have the capacity to defeat them.Brinker HadleyWith a proclivity for organization, Hadley is an avid, charismatic politician at Dover ... ivity for organization, Hadley is an avid, charismatic politician at Dover School. A foil of Finny, Brinker executes his ideas with efficiency and ruthlessness. He feels that the truth is being hidden ...

(9 pages) 42 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

A Peace

cause the boys are seen as potential soldiers, Finny's injury makes him a "casualty," especially to Brinker. Also, Dr. Stanpole laments in Chapter 12 that the risks always present in life are more for ...

(1 pages) 926 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

A Seperate Peace

s with three characters in this story. The characters he has negative relationships with are Finny, Brinker, and Leper.Finny was the one who was talented at everything. He was great in sports, popular ... him, he was pushing leper away from him in a negative way.Gene had an interesting relationship with Brinker. Throughout the book it seemed that Gene and Brinker were not friends, but were more of acqu ...

(3 pages) 1161 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

A Seperate Peace

mselves that start the wars. It is the individual people and what they don't know, that start wars. Brinker thinks that even though his father's generation was responsible for starting the war his gen ...

(1 pages) 1130 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

A separate peace is a story of

lehe interacts with especially Finny, a major character, and Cliff Quakenbush. Leper Lepellier, and Brinker Hadley, minor characters.The tree represented the war for Gene and Finny, and also was the c ... y. That's why Gene tried to hurt Leper because he did not want anyone to know or release his secret.Brinker and Gene's war did not start until Brinker came into Gene's dormitory after everyone had fou ...

(5 pages) 3 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

A separate peace is a story of

lehe interacts with especially Finny, a major character, and Cliff Quakenbush. Leper Lepellier, and Brinker Hadley, minor characters.The tree represented the war for Gene and Finny, and also was the c ... y. That's why Gene tried to hurt Leper because he did not want anyone to know or release his secret.Brinker and Gene's war did not start until Brinker came into Gene's dormitory after everyone had fou ...

(5 pages) 2171 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

"A Separate Peace" THE DESTRUCTION OF PEACE

e school like a virus and everyone else's sense of peace begins to leave them as well.Later on when Brinker hauls Phineas and Gene to this trial of his, it is almost as if Brinker is making an attempt ... It is said that the truth is the best medicine of all, if this is the case then it is possible that Brinker indeed was trying to do a good thing by revealing the truth for all to see. Whether or not t ...

(2 pages) 7 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith