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The book A Separate Peace is about two boys and their doubtful friendship. In the beginning, Gene and Phineas (often called Finny) are as close as brothers, but a horrible accident soon tears them apart. Afterwards, their friendship adopts a false quality and is never the same again. Throughout the story, Gene (the protagonist) suffers from his always changing friendship with Phineas, which includes jealousy, fatal accidents, and adolescent emotions. In the end, it leads to Phineas’s death. The story is set in Devon School for Boys during World War II. It is Summer Session and the boys in Gene and Phineas’s class are free to do whatever they want. Phineas is the leader of the two, and he is the best sportsman in the whole school, although he is not in the senior class. Phineas also possesses an amazing charisma, and is able to t