A Seperate Peace Essay Research Paper Peace — страница 2

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always envied. He now embodied all the things that Finny had represented, all the things that Gene originally envied. I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform: I was on active duty all my time at school: I killed my enemy there. I think that Gene gained a maturity that he never had during his education at Devon with Finny s death. His brain had cleared from its envious cloudiness and was finally at rest. There were no more battles to be fought, no more enemies to be killed. His guilt had been erased, and all doubts of himself and his actions defeated. Phineas greatest gift to Gene was given posthumously. It was not all the fun times that they experienced, but the uninterrupted peace

within oneself that he had always enjoyed.