Setting

Setting is not always the easiest thing to discuss when talking about a story, but it is almost always crucial, and it certainly is in //A Separate Peace//.

On this page, I want us to put our heads together and list everything we know about the setting in the book. Consider any setting changes and what happens in particular places. Also consider how the book would be different if it took place somewhere else. ..

Use quotes to support your points.




 * Passages read while designing the above diagram:**
 * Pointing out the peace that was over the campus during summer, as well as how Finny brought it about: //Page 17, beginning at the top, and going until the first lines of page 18//
 * Pointing out the drastic change in the feel of the campus, the presence of the war, and how it began to come down upon the campus the moment Finny fell from the tree: //Pages 64 and 65, down to the last full paragraph on page 65.//


 * **Devon Academy** - The school is roughly modeled after the Phillips-Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. You might like looking at the [|pictures I shared] of the campus as it appears today.


 * Devon School in New Hampshire in 1942.
 * There is a river/creek near the Academy. And a tree where people jump from the top to the river.
 * Playing fields.
 * Woods on the right.
 * During World War II.
 * About the school's buildings: "Perpendicular and strait-laced, with narrower windows and shinier woodwork, as though a coat of varnish had been put over everything for better preservation."
 * The boys spend most of their time outside. In the court yard or jumping off of the tree, swimming, playing sports, they are very active and imaginative.