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John Knowles novel, A Separate Peace, portrays wars on three distinct levels. These levels could be described as outer, inner, and world. There is a very good definition of these wars at the closing of the novel which shows us the levels: "I could never agree w ....

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.... the story at what is called a "summer session" which could be described as today's equivalent of summer school. But, as the story unfolds, we are forced to ask ourselves, are they friends as the appear to be at the start of the novel or are they mortal enemies as Gene begins to hint with this quote at the point Gene thinks Finny is finally going to "get away" with something he did. "This time he wasn't going to get away with it. I could feel myself becoming unexpectedly excited at that."(page 20) This shows us that even though they are friends, Gene feels that Finny is too perfect and he needs to see a sign that he is human, that he is not th ....