A Separate Peace: Gene Forrester

Part I of Essay
Sometimes in life a person may look back upon events that have occurred in their lives and realize that they have reached a point in which they are ready to move on. One can see this happen to the character Gene Forrester in the novel A Separate Peace. For fifteen years of ....

Part II of Essay
.... else; he was, however present in every moment of everyday…” However after many years Gene stabilized and was able to realize that although these feelings of guilt might stay with him forever, he must learn how to live them. Although, Gene lived a hard life, he still had to go on with it. Throughout a persons life they undergo many challenges and obstacles, which they have to overcome. Though there are many ways to do this, I feel that Gene did it both the wrong and right way. By going to the Navy Gene only buried his guilt temporarily, but di ....