Biography of John Knowles

John Knowles was born in Fairmont, West Virginia in 1962 and died on 29th November 2001. When he became a student at Phillips Exeter College (Boarding School) he was only 15 years old. After graduating in 1945, he decided to participate in war as part of the American Army Air Force Aviation Learner program. John went to Europe and served as a journalist until the mid-1950s, after which he returned to the United States in 1957. After returning home, he found a job at Thornton Wilder, deputy editor in holiday magazine.

The classic 'A Separate Peace' of the boarding school of John Seles is a narrator's friendship story between academic achievement and sports leader Jean and Phineas. . Due to obsession, Jean discovered that he was involved in an accident that caused himself a serious injury to Phineas. In a psychically rich story full of homosexuality, Knowles uses this boy 's friendship to explore what trust, praise, anger, and what that means that it wants others' lives .

In many cases, in literary works, the character's experience and perception allow the reader to better understand human behavior and emotions. In John Sechel's "The Separate Peace", the person called Gene has experienced a broken life. And finally he understood the independence and peace of the boy. His last treatment represents a way from an immature youth to an understanding of adults. John Knowles provides readers with clues and information to help readers understand this. The role of this gene was taken into the story as an obsession and it was one of the few boys who noticed that Devin had independent peace. This gene is obsessed with the "cruel and silly gypsy way" of the summer tournament (Norse 65). He almost forgot the war, because he "almost captured that rhythm, danced, clicked, and shook it sideways" (Knowles 65).

John Knowles used symbolic literary elements in his novel "Independent Peace". Jean is a student at the Devon preparatory school in New Hampshire and is trying to understand the love, hatred, and jealousy he feels about a roommate Phineas called "Finny". Knowles uses city halls, marble staircases, changing rooms to symbolize how genetic malignancy affects Finney and that the effect of this effect on adulthood of genes. The effect of genes on the malignantness of Finney, the hole where the gene is judged is symbolic. A classmate, Brinker, took him to the hall with some of his colleagues. At this point, Jean noticed that he deliberately shook his limbs sideways. Jean of the same age began to doubt his innocence. Fanny felt angry at the end of the trial at Gene Town Hall. In this pandemic, Finney said, "I do not mind it, it is not a problem" (168)