seperate peace
...s delivered to their clubs now. You’ve noticed how they’ve been getting fatter lately haven’t you?” It was hard for finny to be happy because of his disability. He suffered because he had to face the truth about his accident. He pulls Gene away from enlisting in the war because they had become so dependent on each other. “‘Enlist! Cried Finny. His large and clear eyes turned with an odd expression on me. I had never seen such a look in them before. ‘You’re going to enlist?’” Leper Lepellier tried to escape from everyone and everything. Leper looks for a beaver dam instead of working to be carefree and escape the war, “…we all volunteered…but not Leper.” He does this because he is afraid that a change in his life may disrupt his quiet state. By escaping through nature, he is avoiding the truths to his life. Leper was an outcast. Leper suffers by discovering things about himself that he never realized. He learns that he is tired of pleasing other people all the time, “What’s she got to be pleased about…I’m pleasing myself!” Leper finds himself when he comes home from war. This “crazy” Leper is who he really is. He was never sure of himself because he was always too busy escaping reality. All he wants is someone who cares for him. Gene blames others for all of his problems. He blames Finny for keeping him from learning. Gene finds a challenge in being placid because of his situation with Finny. He is unsure of his own opinion because he is used to agreeing with Finny, he never developed his own thoughts and ideas. Gene views finny as a bitter rival, but for Finny, Gene was the best thing that ever happened to him. He was his best friend. Gene was so busy competing with Finny that he never realized what a true friend he was. All his jealousy towards him turned to hate and eventually ended in tragedy. Gene also blames himself for jouncing the tree limb, wh...