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John Knowles, in A Separate Peace, uses symbols to show his perspective of society. Knowles presents his perspective through the differences between the Devon and Naguamsett rivers. ... While war and peace are the greatest symbols that are used to confirm Knowles’ views.
John Knowles was born in 1926 in Fairmont, West Virginia. ...
Knowles started writing as a journalist during the 1950s in Europe. ... Knowles is the recipient of The Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and the William Faulkner Award. Knowles’ writing, post-Peace, all revolves around the same themes, corruption of the upper class in America, greed, and competitiveness. John Knowles currently resides in Florida, where he continues to write. ...
One way that Knowles uses his perspective of society is through the Devon and Naguamsett rivers. In the novel Knowles writes:
We never used this lower river, the Naguamsett, during the summer. ...
Knowles takes his memory of his time spent at Exeter to create the setting of A Separate Peace. ... Although in actuality the Exeter is not as pure as the Devon is made out to be, and the Squamscott is cleaner than the Naguamsett, Knowles, throughout the novel, emphasizes the purity and the ugliness to make the rivers more symbolic. ... In Esquire Knowles comments:
What I set out to do in the novel was to unscramble, plump, and explain what had happened during a very peculiar summer at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, where I was a sixteen-year-old summer-session student in 1943. ...
By pulling from his own vantage point, and people around him, who he uses as a basis for characters in the novel, Knowles portrays his perspective of what was going, and where around him during the summer of 1943.
Knowles uses the winter and summer sessions as symbols to aid in the understanding of the novel. ...
Knowles was able to capture the sentiments of many with the use of denial in the novel.
Approximate Word count = 1616
Approximate Pages = 6.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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