Warning: Use of undefined constant referer - assumed 'referer' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 102

Warning: Use of undefined constant host - assumed 'host' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 105

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays:102) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 106

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays:102) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 109
A Separate Peace: Changes - Term Papers

A Separate Peace: Changes

Edward �Leper� Lepellier, from John Knowles� A Separate Peace, never showed resentment openly. He enlisted in the army during his junior year in high school, but after he saw horrific images during boot camp, he returned home. He went back to school to visit and his peers noticed a significant change in him, psychologically and socially. He changed from being a quiet detached person, to a person who expressed his anger toward anything that agitated him in the slightest way.
Leper did not enjoy doing things with other people. He did not jump out of trees with Gene and Finny; they were the closest things to friends he had. Another thing Leper did not do is play Blitzball with all the ...

Want to read the rest of this paper?
Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay
and over 50,000 other term papers

snow began to take possession of everything at Devon like the war took possession everything in the world. �Leper Lepellier didn�t suspect this. It was not in fact evident to anyone at first. But Leper stands out for me as the person who was most often and most emphatically taken by surprise, by this and every other shift in our life at Devon,� (85). Anything that happened at Devon was a surprise to him because he never paid attention to anything except things that concerned him. He liked things just the way they were; he did not like change. Instead of busying his time with what everyone else did, he liked cross-country skiing, or as he called it, �touring skiing,� sketching birds and trees, doing things that he could do alone. Leper was not a social person, though he did have a few good friends. He knew how to listen; this is a trait that is admirable about Leper. Not everyone is a listener.
After hearing the two sides of Leper, the one before the war and the one after the ...

Get instant access to over 50,000 essays.
Write better papers. Get better grades.

Already a member? Login

CITE THIS PAGE:

APA
MLA
Chicago
Turabian

A Separate Peace: Changes. (2005, November 2). Retrieved November 30, 2024, from http://www.essayworld.com/essays/A-Separate-Peace-Changes/35871

"A Separate Peace: Changes." Essayworld.com. Essayworld.com, 2 Nov. 2005. Web. 30 Nov. 2024. <http://www.essayworld.com/essays/A-Separate-Peace-Changes/35871>

"A Separate Peace: Changes." Essayworld.com. November 2, 2005. Accessed November 30, 2024. http://www.essayworld.com/essays/A-Separate-Peace-Changes/35871.

JOIN NOW

Join today and get instant access to this and 50,000+ other essays

PAPER DETAILS

Added: 11/2/2005 06:58:55 PM
Category: Book Reports
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 484
Pages: 2

Save |

Report

SHARE THIS PAPER

SAVED ESSAYS

Save and find your favorite essays easier