10 Academic English/Adcock
A Separate Peace
Name: _________________________________________________________ Period: ________
Chapter 9-13 Summary Activity
Directions: Using the word bank provided, fill in the appropriate information below.
Olympics
peace
latent
accolades
help
escaped
ski
savage
Coast Guard
engine
ignorant
obscene
ambiguous
hated
allude
real
Vermont
benevolent
reticent
exalt
Eight
fortitude
hallucinations
torpid
no
rebroken
blind
himself
heart
broken
sun
cider
browbeat
Carnival
happy
Leper
Finny
innate
cry
Navy
pity
died
In the beginning of Chapter 5 we find out that (1)_____________ enlists because he
thinks he is going to be able to (2)_____________ in the army. While he is gone, the other
students **(3)_____________ to the various things Leper might be doing. Finny begins to
organize the Winter (4)_____________, which raises the **(5)_____________ and tired mood
of the winter. The main attractions are a ski jump, snow statues, a various list of prizes or
**(6)_____________ and the possession of hard (7)_____________, which they
**(8)____________ away from some of the lowerclassmen. Finny models the event off of the
(9)___________, which he wishes he could be a part of someday. The Winter Carnival
represents a time of “separate (10)_____________,” both from the war and the coming
responsibilities of adulthood. The mood at this event is (11)_____________ until Gene gets a
telegram from Leper asking for (12)_____________ because he has (13)_____________.
Gene travels to Leper’s home in (14)_____________ to see what happened since he
enlisted in the army. The reasoning behind Leper’s escape is **(15)_____________ to Gene at
this point and he is curious to see him. When he gets there he finds Leper has changed since he
last saw him. While he used to be peaceful and **(16)_____________, Leper is now
**(17)_____________ and offensive. He tells Gene he was in danger of getting a Section
(18)_____________ discharge, which is reserved for the “nuts in the service.” During their
conversation, Leper accuses Gene of being a “(19)_____________ underneath” who once
knocked Finny from the tree and “crippled him for life.” Gene gets angry and kicks Leper’s
chair, but he soon realizes Leper is not completely at fault for his behavior. When Leper finally
tells Gene his story, we find out that he’s been having (20)_____________ since he got to the
army as a result of not sleeping or eating and being under the constant stress of the coming war.
Leper does not possess the **(21)_____________ that soldiers need to have in order to sustain
the military lifestyle. Disturbed by this information, Gene runs away, leaving Leper alone in the
field.
When Gene gets back to Devon, he wants to see (22)_____________ because this person
has the **(23)_____________ ability to cheer others up. Brinker advises Gene to start being
honest with Finny about his condition, so that he does not start to (24)_____________ himself,
but Gene refuses. Finny finally admits the war is (25)_____________ because he sees what it has
done to Leper. Brinker and his friends come to get Gene and Finny in the middle of night to hold
a mock trial to investigate Finny’s accident. At first Finny is **(26)_____________ and lies for
Gene about whether or not he was alone in the tree, but eventually his curiosity gets the best of
him and he admits the only witness to his accident is Leper, who is on campus. When
interviewed Leper tells the others that he couldn’t see exactly what happened that day because
the (27)_____________ was in his eyes, but he remembers there were two people on the branch
and that the first one moved like an (28)_____________ and the other one fell as a result. Given
this information, Finny can no longer **(29)_____________ Gene and runs out of the room. On
his way down the stairs, he falls.
In the beginning of Chapter 12 we find out that Finny has (30)_____________ the same
leg. While in the infirmary, he and Gene have a heated discussion but on a second visit, they
come to an understanding. Gene explains his part in the accident happened because of a
(31)_____________ impulse, something about himself he can’t explain. They both realize it
wasn’t Finny Gene hated but (32)_____________. Finny also admits to writing to military
officials all winter, seeing if he could enlist with them but they all said (33)_____________.
After Finny’s surgery, Gene goes to visit him and finds out he has (34)_____________ from
bone marrow traveling through his blood stream to his (35)_____________. Metaphorically, we
know Finny died of a (36)_____________ heart. Gene does not (37)_____________ when he
hears this news or ever because he believes a part of him died with Finny and he explains you do
not cry at your own funeral.
In Chapter 13 we find out that Gene has enlisted in the (38)_____________ while
Brinker joins the (39)_____________
_____________. They reason they will be safer in these
branches of the military. Gene reflects on his time at Devon and Finny and realizes only Finny
never (40)_____________ anyone, only Finny possessed a **(41)_____________ inner peace
which no other person he knew seemed to have. He reasons that all kinds of wars – both internal
and external – are made by something “(42)_____________ in the human heart”. Gene realizes
while at Devon he killed the only real enemy he ever had – himself.