"Seperate Peace" essay in John Knowles

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. Real jocks only care about winning, Phineas makes sure it's not possible for anyone to win or lose.         Chet Douglas is an exaggerated prep, just …showed first 75 words of 489 total…

…showed last 75 words of 489 total…book. He is the type who would step over his own mother (or shake his best friend off of a tree) to get what he wants. Since the time when this book takes place, new groups of people called subcultures have formed. Each subculture has its own social norms. They are like a society within a society, and segregate the people even more than these five basic types of people did back in Knowles' time.