A Seperate Peace
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Rebecca Kirchner
9-19-07
Period 3
English
In 1959, John Knowles wrote a book named “A Separate Peace”. He conveyed the theme of the loss of innocence by showing how everybody has some innocence in them but having too much is not healthy. He showed how ironic things can be. He conveyed how as people get older they lose their innocence but some people just hold onto it until they are truly ready to give it up.
“With the sensation that I was throwing my life away, I jumped into space. Some tips of branches snapped past me and I was in the water.” In this excerpt from the novel, Gene is losing his innocence by jumping into the water that was unknown to him. He said that he was “throwing his life away” but maybe at that point in his life, his life was his innocence, or what remained of it. Gene threw his innocence away without even being...