A Separate Peace - Gene's Journey Gene Forrester’s in the novel A Separate Pace had a difficult journey towards maturity and the adult world is a main focus of the novel, A Separate Peace, by John Knowles. Gene's journey begins the moment he pushes Phineas from the tree and the process continues until he had visited the tree fifteen years later after he jerked it when Finny fell and broke his leg. Throughout this …showed first 75 words of 1177 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1177 total…on and join the adult world. Gene's maturation was long, and painful. It is a painful and difficult process that reveals a darker side of Gene that he doesn't necessarily wish to see. However painful, Gene is made a better person during his maturation through all the suffering he had went through. Also all the pain he went through and awful reevaluations about himself, Gene matures from an insecure child to a self knowledgeable adult.