Homework 9/11

Students are to select a quotation and respond to a major theme the quote expresses, or simply to outline the importance of the quotation within the context of the novel.

“We were careless and wild, and I suppose we could be thought of as a sign of the life the war was being fought to preserve….They noticed our games tolerantly. We reminded them of what peace was like, of lives which were not bound up with destruction.” (24).

“To keep silent about this amazing happening deepened the shock for me. It made Finny seem too unusual for – not friendship, but too unusual for rivalry.” (45).

“You and Phineas are even already. You are even in enmity. You are both coldly driving ahead for yourselves alone. You did hate him for breaking that school swimming record, but so what? He hated you for getting an A in every course but one last term.” (53).

“’Listen, pal, if I can’t play sports, you’re going to play them for me,’ and I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas” (85).

“‘I mean as much as you can say a season can love. What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.” I didn’t think that this was true, my seventeen years of experience had shown this to be much more false than true, but it was like every other thought and belief of Finny’s; it should have been true.” (111).

9/10 HW ASP summer reading

How does the war impact the text A Separate Peace. 1 paragraph post on blogs