A Separate Peace: Coming of Age Story

Coming-Of-Age Story component Forrester is the protagonist of a coming of age romance in many ways. First Genes shift from ignorance to fellowship is pretty apparent. An base Gene is led to the tree where he jounces the the offset causing Finny to fall. The knowledge of his evil deed and the loss of innocence because of it truely launches Gene from puerility to adulthood. Genes shift from innocence to experience can be expressed by the very same situation. Gene lost his innocence when he jounced the limb of the tree and injuring Finny because of it. He now has experience of doing sinful deeds.What drove Gene to jounce the limb was perhaps to bring Finny knock down to his own take and make the dickens equal. The very thought causes Gene to become a little less innocent and a little more devious. objet dart of coming-of-age is having the experience of the consequences of doing bad things. Gene withal experiences a shift from a false view of his human race to a correct view. In the root word of the novel Gene views his world as being confined to Devon and that the war was not going to approach him for a long time. He in short realizes that the war is coming for him whether he likes it or not.Coming-of-age also means judge the things you cannot change and trying make a positive experience come on of it. When Gene realizes that Finny made up his theory about the war because he was denied entry to all of the branches of the military, his view of the war changes. His view of the war changes also because he had found out that Leper was about to face a devolve and he abandoned his post because of it. He now views the war as a very real thing. Idealism and realism are two ideas that Gene faces through the course of the novel.In the first few chapters Gene is idealistic. He unrealistically pursues the idea that Finny resents him for his superior academic ability. We figure out though that it is Gene who resents Finny because of his athletic ability and ch arm. The idea of crippling Finny to bring him down to Genes level causes him to make Finny fall. He now faces the real effects of his actions and has to come to terms with them. He also realizes that Finny was to pure of boob to resent Gene and Gene envied this great quality. Recognizing the harshness of the realistic world is part of coming-of-age.