Everyone has the biggest say in who they are, and who they become. However, the people around an individual also have an immense impact on how a person develops their character. The friends we know and trust have an impact in who we are by judging our actions, serving as a comparison to ourselves, and by influencing our emotions with their own. In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, the character of Finny heavily influences his best friend Gene, and exhibits the aforementioned actions while doing so.
The biggest fear of doing or completing an action is being judged. Individuals can judge themselves, yet people tend to value other’s opinions of themselves over their own. Throughout A Separate Peace, Finny judges every act of Gene’s with criticism and opinions, and it causes Gene to change and form new characteristics. “’If you’re really good at something, I mean if there’s nobody, or hardly anybody, who’s as good as you are, then you’ve got to be serious about that.......
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