A Separate Peace Review

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A Separate Peace Review

• Chapters 1-7

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People and Places to know

• Brinker
• Devon
• Gene
• Knowles
• Leper

• Naguamsett
• Phineas
• Quackenbush
• Dr. Stanpole

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Chapters 1-3

• Gene comes back after 15 years
• School name Devon
• State New Hampshire
• War World War II
• Pink shirt Emblem for war/Tie as a belt
• THE TREE!!! came back to see itFinny fell out
  of itSuper Suicide Society of the Summer Session

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Continued

• Gene Narrator/Protagonist
• Finny Antagonist-Best FriendsRoommates
• Convinces Gene to jump out of the tree
• Finny is a fast talker-gets them out of trouble
• SSSSS Jump out of the tree
• Gene almost falls-Finny saves him. Doesnt owe
  Finny anythingFinny talked him into it.
• Gene doesnt stop b/c he doesnt want to lose
  face w/Finny.

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Continued

• BLITZBALL!!!-Game by Finnyrun with ball until
  someone knocks you over.
• Breaks the swimming record-A Hopkins Parker. No
  one to knowJust wanted to break record for fun.
• Gene and Finny go to the Beach. Ride bikes
  there.go swimming. Finny says Were best
  palsHe caresawww.

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Chapters 4-5

• Genes late coming back to school. He fails
  Trigonometry test. Finny trying to
  wreck/sabotage his grades!
• Leper will jump from tree. Thinks Finny is
  jealous of Gene b/c he makes good grades.
• FIGHT!!!-Studying
• Finny says well do a double jump!
• Gene jounces/bounces the limb!!! Finny falls and
  there is a THUD!!!
• Gene jumps Confidence, Happiness, Peace

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Continued

• Finny goes to infirmary
• Finny asks GeneThey talk. Gene tries to
  confessbut Dr. Stanpole enters.
• Finny goes home to Boston. Gene home for the
  summer (South).
• Visits him in Boston and confesses!!! Finny
  reacts angrilyHit himkill himleave.
• Gene says he must have been CRAZY!!!

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Chapters 6-7

• Gene is at Devon If you broke the rules, then
  they break you.-about Finny.
• Gene wont play sports b/c Finny cant play. So
  he goes out for assistant crew manager
• FIGHTS Quackenbush
• Long Distance call fromFinny. If I cant play
  sports youll play for me.
• Meets Brinker Hadley from across the hall.
  Brinker says Gene hurt Finny on purpose.

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Continued

• They go to the Butt room! There is a trial.
  Gene yells at a kid. He leaves before he
  smokesb/c he is shaken by the interrogation.
• Pick apples and shovel for the railroad.
• Brinker talks about enlisting
• NO Gene wont b/c Finny needs him.

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Last bit to study

• Literary Elements
• First Person I
• Mood
• Theme

• Vocabulary IN CONTEXT

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Vocabulary Define!
  tacit  
  capacious
  contentious
  prodigious
  inane
  inured
  inebriating  
    idiosyncratic  
    infinitesimal  
    sinecure  
    bantam  
    puttee  
    zestfully  
  mordantly
  spectral
  enmity
  latent  
  clichés
  curtly
  reverie  

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Last Minute Notes

• The test is next class
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