11/25/08
"It wasn't the cider which made me surpass myself, it was the liberation we had torn from the gray encroachments of 1943, the escape we had concocted, this afternoon of momentary, illusory, special and separate peace"(137).
This quote is important because it relates back to this theme of "A Separate Peace." As we saw earlier in the book, the kids at Devon in the summer sort of resembled a "separate peace," in terms of being apart from the war and enjoying themselves in a time of chaos and death when the rest of the world is focused on the war. We see that same kind of "separate peace," theme in this quote, when they are creating joyful times (carnival), from something bad, and becoming separate from the world in times of peril and destruction.
How could Leper's escaping from the war change the way people think about him?
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