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A Separate Peace - Symbolism
Tree Marble Staircase
Blitzball Devon River
Naquamsett River
A Separate Peace - Symbolism
The Tree
The tree "was
tremendous, an irate,
steely black steeple
beside the river."
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A Separate Peace - Symbolism
Gene says it symbolizes "those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but that they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age."
The Tree
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The Tree
The tree is fear itself - fear that Gene must climb and conquer.
And, like in the Garden of Eden, it symbolized knowledge of good and evil.
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A Separate Peace - Symbolism
Tree Marble Staircase
Blitzball Devon River
Naquamsett River
A Separate Peace - Symbolism
Marble Staircase
Gene realizes how hard the marble is, and notes how "surprising [it is] that [he] had overlooked that, that crucial fact"
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Marble Staircase
"That crucial fact" led to Finny’s death.
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Marble Staircase
It symbolizes the hard cold reality of death and the irrevocable consequences of our actions.
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Tree Marble Staircase
Blitzball Devon River
Naquamsett River
A Separate Peace - Symbolism
Finny “had unconsciously invented a game which brought his own athletic gifts to their highest pitch. The odds were tremendously against the ball carrier, so that Phinneas was driven to exceed himself practically every day when he carried the ball.”
Blitzball
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A Separate Peace - Symbolism
It represents the individual struggle of each student at Devon, who finds himself alone in a world without teammates.
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Blitzball
A Separate Peace - Symbolism
Blitzball is an undeniable symbol of war – it’s very name derived from the German warfare strategy of “Blitzkrieg.”
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Blitzball
A Separate Peace - Symbolism
Tree Marble Staircase
Blitzball Devon River
Naquamsett River
A Separate Peace - Symbolism
Devon River
The river was clean and narrow with fresh water HOME
A Separate Peace - Symbolism
Devon River
It was where the boys swam and where they jumped from the tree. HOME
A Separate Peace - Symbolism
Devon River
Innocence and PurityThe Garden of Eden
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Tree Marble Staircase
Blitzball Devon River
Naquamsett River
A Separate Peace - Symbolism
Naguamsett River
The Naguamsett River was as unfamiliar and ugly as the war was to the Devon students. “It was ugly, saline, fringed with marsh, mud and seaweed."
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Naguamsett River
Gene received his “baptism” of hate when he fell in the Naguamsett during a fight.
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Naguamsett River
Sin and CorruptionLife outside the Garden
of Eden
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A Separate Peace - Symbolism
Tree Marble Staircase
Blitzball Devon River
Naquamsett River