This is an Online Internet Book Club on A Separate Peace by John Knowles. Discuss this book, share your thoughts, make comments, ask questions, offer responses...
Description
Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.
A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowles's crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic.
Book Club Questions for A Separate Peace (Fiction)
Suggested Book Club Questions for A Separate Peace (Fiction)
The following book club questions provide a starting point for creating a reading group discussion on A Separate Peace:
- Did John Knowles emphasize any specific themes throughout A Separate Peace? What do you think John Knowles is trying to explain with this theme?
- What was unique about the setting of A Separate Peace and how did it affect the storyline?
- Could you relate to any of the characters? If so, which ones and why?
- How do characters change or learn throughout A Separate Peace? What events caused these changes? Have you or someone you know experienced the same thing?
- How does A Separate Peace reveal John Knowles's own perspectives about people and the world? For a lively discussion, describe why you think John Knowles is liberal or conservative.
- Did certain parts of A Separate Peace affect you emotionally? Why did it evoke those emotions?
- Did John Knowles's point of view on things lend new perspective to your own view of the world?
Book Club Questions for A Separate Peace (for Non-Fiction)
Suggested Book Club Questions for A Separate Peace (Non-fiction)
The following book club questions provide a starting point for creating a reading group discussion on A Separate Peace:
- Did John Knowles make persuasive arguments in A Separate Peace? Did A Separate Peace change or reinforce your opinion on the subject?
- What did you learn from A Separate Peace?
- How does John Knowles present the information and did you enjoy it?
- How is John Knowles biased within A Separate Peace? Is there a political slant to what is being discussed and how does it impact the book?
- What, if anything, does A Separate Peace make you want to read next? Why?
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