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John Knowles wrote the novel, A Separate Peace, in 1959, about coming age at a preparatory school based on his experiences at Philips Exeter Academy. ... ” He researched the meanings of the names of the two main characters and applied them to the personalities of the boys involved in A Separate Peace. ... Hallman seems to think that the two main characters’ names where chosen symbolically, “The point I wish to make concerns Knowles’s use of descriptive names in A Separate Peace, which seems so obvious that I wonder why, so far as I know, no one has yet made it” (Hallman 42). ... “There is only one symbol in A Separate Peace that I consciously created and that is that the campus sits astride two rivers, the Devon and the Narragansett, meaning that the Devon symbolizes innocence and youth while the brackish Narragansett symbolizes corruption of experience in the world…” (Knowles VHS). ... “…Knowles’s use of descriptive names in A Separate Peace, which seems obvious…” (Hallman 42).
Approximate Word count = 1008
Approximate Pages = 4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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