Gene Forrester

"Independent peace" began with the protagonist Gene Forrest and he came back to the German school to find the boy in two places at a young age. He has an emotional connection. The first place is the marble staircase of the first university building, the second is the tree beside the river, which is "small, shrinking by age" (Knowles, 14). He came here as he could solve what happened 17 years ago and continue his life; find peace in himself. When Jean visited the tree, he found out he was standing in front of the tree again, but now he is young.

Gene Forrester - a narrator and a protagonist of a novel. When independent peace began, Jean was in her early 30s and visited Devon School for the first time in several years. He is soon smart, intelligent, competitive, and has a tendency to raise. He developed a love-hate relationship with his best friend, alternately wearing and swearing Finny. Often he loses his identity and wants to live as a member of Finney, but this shows that he is very resentful in his personality. However, the reader has to infer this aspect of the gene from the behavior he explains, much like his predominant personality rather than deducing from any obvious statements about his state of mind . With his own emotion, he is a silent and unreliable narrator.

Gene Forrester, a storyteller of a novel, is an adult who came back to the school of Devonshire and remembered the year when he spent there. During the novel, this gene was about 16 years old, very thoughtful, intellectual and attractive. Genetics and satire humor are very competitive. Like most Devonian students, he often avoids expressing emotions publicly. Jean's "best friend" is Finney (Fineas). Finney is perfect in almost every respect. He is sincere, handsome, confident, completely disarmed, very flattering, and the best athlete at school. Finney lives in a pure and free friendship and his strong loyalty extends to every group he belongs to. He became rebellious and did not try to spoil his disorderly happiness to even the harsher supporters.

As the novel advanced, the hero Gene Forrester continued to refuse the idea of ​​"barbarism below". Jean has a faint line in his nature, which makes him attack the innocent people. When his "best friend" Finney stood at the edge, he deliberately bumped the branches of the tree; let him drop his funny and break his leg. This evil deed permanently harms Finney, but that gene rejects malicious contemplation

The maturity of Jean Forester and a tough journey to the adult world are the protagonists of this novel. The journey of the genes began at the moment he pushed Funny out of the tree and that process continued until he visited the tree in 15 years. In the meantime, the gene must self-recognize, face reality and the future, face his problem, and must allow and accept who he is. When the limbs beat, Jean noticed his problems and the real people in him. Fifteen years later, when he re-examined the tree, he finally accepted and forgiven himself. This trip is long and painful. At the end of a long, winding road filled with grooves, difficulties, problems, genes become mature adults