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One's identity is shaped by one's actions, thus becoming who one is. Growing up, everyone
questions, "How do we become who we are?" Peope argue that events shape one's identity, and
conversey, identity determines one's actions. !n the book, " #eparate Peace, written by $ohn
%nowes, the main character, Gene &orrester, 'aces a simiar probem. Gene is a high schoo
student who enters aduthood in a time o' war. His identity is shaped by pain'u events, which
ead his inteigent student i'e, in 'ear o' criticism and 'aiure. (hrough 'ear, he acks the se'
con'idence to say no to the wi o' others, and do what is in his best interest. )hie his probems
at *evon, )ord )ar !! is occurring and some o' his peers have enisted in the army. Gene's
strugges between 'riendships and reaity, carving his identity.
+ike most high schoo students, Gene &orrester ooks up to his peers and compares
himse' to them. One peer in particuar is his "best 'riend," Phineas aso known as &inny. Gene
envies &inny's con'idence and eadership abiities throughout the book. Gene convinces himse'
that &inny is out to get him and to destroy his i'e, and is dispeased with his personaity. "t
points in the nove, Gene tries to beieve that &inny is his 'riend but then dismisses the 'act that
&inny coud be. "! shoud have tod him then that he was my best 'riend aso and rounded o''
what he had said. ! started to, ! neary did. -ut something hed me back. Perhaps ! was stopped
by that eve o' 'eeing, deeper than thought, which contains the truth. .pg. /01" Gene can be
concuded as insecure, 'or he is con'used o' etting his guard down or not. Gene reay wants to
be 'riends with &inny but deep down his thoughts o' &inny and his envy makes him think
otherwise. Gene can't decide i' &inny is his 'riend or 'oe. (o make &inny seem ess per'ect, Gene
assures himse' that &inny is trying to sabotage his i'e.
Gene goes on to admire &inny, but keeps the envy in his heart. He ooks up to &inny and
wants to reate to him. His desire to be &inny is so great that since he can't e2ist with him, Gene
becomes him. "(o keep sient about this ama3ing happening deepened the shock 'or me. !t made
&inny seem too unusua 'or4not 'riendship, but too unusua 'or rivary. "nd there were 'ew
reationships among us at *evon not based on rivary..pg. /51" "t this point in the nove the
reader can concude that Gene is becoming &inny. (hat Gene doesn't think o' &inny as an enemy
but doesn't want to think o' him as a 'riend. Gene's con'usion, makes him oose his identity and
take up someone ese's.
!n the nove, Gene, at points, acts deceiving. His con'usion eads to him acting one way
in 'ront o' &inny, and acting another way behind &inny's back. "#ometimes ! 'ound it hard to
remember his treachery, sometimes ! discovered myse' thoughtessy sipping back into
a''ection 'or him again..pg. 551" Gene 'inds himse' acting ike &inny's 'riend. -ut at other times,
he despises &inny and thinks o' him as his enemy. (his a''ection that Gene has becomes stronger
and stronger in the nove and eventuay starts to break. Gene's identity is burring into &inny's,
but Gene is unaware o' it. He gives up his identity and takes up &inny's to make him his hero.
&inny's desperateness o' a great personaity, eads him to deveop a new one with pain'u e''ects.
(he ma6or event that changes Gene is when &inny 'e out o' a tree, becoming cripped.
Previousy, be'ore this event, Gene got into an argument with &inny. (hen when &inny and Gene
go to the tree to 6ump o', Gene accidenty shakes the tree. &inny on the imb 'as down 'rom the
branch becoming cripped. "'ter this event, Gene thinks he is guity o' what happened to &inny.
He is so disgusted with this accident that he can't bear to be himse' anymore. (here'ore, he takes
up &inny's identity. "! spent as much time as ! coud aone in our room, trying to empty my mind
o' every thought, to 'orget where ! was, even who ! was. 7...8 ! decided to put on his coths.7...8
(his gave me such intense reie', 7...8 ! woud never stumbe through the con'usions o' my own
character again..pg. 9:1" Gene is unaware o' who he is. (o ose the guit he has, he abandons his
identity and becomes &inny.
Gene wears &inny's coths and stand in 'ront o' the mirror. !n the mirror, he sees not
himse' but &inny. " ! was Phineas, Phineas to i'e. ! even had his humorous e2pression on his
'ace, his sharp, optimistic awareness..pg. 9:1" Gene has a ust to become &inny. )hen ooking at
the mirror at himse', Gene sees &inny. He is trans'orming into &inny's personaity. His
characteristics are becoming ike &inny's. &or e2ampe, since Gene sees &inny in the mirror, he
becomes, to himse' more ike &inny. -y seeing himse' as &inny, he oses his guit that he had
toward &inny. (his makes him 'ee coser to &inny and cose enough to take &inny's identity.
"'ter this i'e changing event 'or Gene, he e6ects his evi 'eeings 'or &inny and turns his 'eeings
around, where dependency instead o' envy drives it.
#ince &inny became cripped he wasn't abe to be as athetic as he was be'ore. !nstead he
trained Gene to accompish his dreams. &inny's dream was to become an athete. &inny
dependent on Gene now. "&inney says, "+eave your 'antasy i'e out o' this. )e're grooming you
'or the Oympics, pa, in ;<//." 7...8 (here was no harm in taking aim, even i' the target was a
dream..pg. ;;=1" >ow &inny sets out to trans'orm Gene into an Oympic athete. Gene agrees to
him without questioning. He thinks that it is 6ust a dream. (his shows that he takes &inny's dream
and makes it his own. (he reader can concude that both Gene and &inny are dependent on each
other now, they need each other.
&rom then on, &inny trains Gene 'or the Oympics. Gene need &inny to earn more about
himse'. ""?ou've been pretty a3y a aong, haven't you?" "?es, ! guess ! have been." "?ou
didn't even know anything about yourse'." "! didn't guess ! did, in a way."" (his shows that by
becoming more ike &inny, an athete, Gene earns more about his true se'. @hanging his identity
heps him earn more about his own great personaity. Gene is trying on his admiration and envy,
trying to become his hero, &inny. -oth Gene and &inny are determine to make &inny's dreams
come true. -ut Gene sti thinks about the war and is con'used between the dream and reaity.
One good 'riend o' Gene and &inny, +eper 6oins the miitary. He comes home insane and
psychotic. )hen Gene goes to visit him, he acts insane. Gene 'inds the one person who knows
his rea identity. ""+ike that time you knocked &inny out o' the tree, 7...8 aways were a savage
underneath."" Gene is taken back that someone knows his rea identity. -e'ore this no one reay
accused Gene o' causing the accident that happened to &inny. Ony Gene himse' beieve he had
caused the accident. -ut now +eper had admitted it too. He had known the rea Gene. Gene
coudn't take the bame so he then pushes +eper out o' the chair 'orgetting +eper's insanity.
Aventuay Gene con'ronts &inny about the accident. (hey both beieve the 'act that Gene
didn't mean to push &inny out o' the tree. "(his touched an interesting point Phineas had been
turning over in his mind 'or a ong time. 7...8 "!t's very 'unny," he said, "but ever since then !'ve
had a 'eeing that the tree did it by itse'. !t's an impression !'ve had. "most as though the tree
shook me out by itse'.".pg. ;9<1" Gene wasn't Gene when he shook the branch. !t was his
6eaousy, his envy that caused him to 6ounce the imb. He didn't intend on destroying &inny's
'uture but ended up doing so. &inny never showed that he cared about what happened to him
unti when Gene brought it up. &inny sounded as though he was not ony trying to convince Gene
but aso himse' that Gene didn't purposey shake the branch.
"doescents identities and societies troube are 'ought between when growing up but ony
through this one becomes a person.4444ending sentence o' essay