A Separate Peace; Chapter Summaries
Chapter 1: The narrator (Gene) returns to the Devon School in New Hampshire,
that he graduated from 15 years earlier. He goes to a certain tree and switches
back to the past. Phineas dares everyone to jump from a branch in the tree into
the river. Phineas, and Gene both jump. On the way back Phineas and Gene play
fight so that they are late for dinner.
Chapter 2:Mr. Prud'homme, a master, stops by the boys' room to scold them for
missing dinner again for the ninth time in two weeks. Phineas explains that they
were late because they were jumping out of the tree to toughen up for the war.
Mr Prud'homme, accepts the explanation because, he, and everyone else, feel
sorry for the boys that will soon have to go to war.
Chapter 3: The boys join The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session. The
club meets every night. Phineas and Gene open each night by jumping out of the
tree. They make a new kind of war game called blitzball, in which everyone is......
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