A Separate Peace: Social Sterotypes
Beginning of paper
Thesis: The five main characters in John Knowles' A Separate
Peace represent social stereotypes, according to some
people.
In his book A Separate Peace, John Knowles represents jocks with
Phineas, a character who believes that sports are the key to life. Phineas is
more of a sportsman than a jock. ....
Middle of paper
.... parents
can marvel at how smart (s)he is.
There is one character that fits into no stereotype. "Leper" Lepillier
is an individualist. Individualists are people who don't conform to social
norms just for the sake of being accepted by others. Real individualists are
not those people with blue and green hair you see on talk shows. Those people
conform to a subculture, something that was less common during World War II.
The real individualists of the world are quickly disappearing, as co ....
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