Part 1 of Essay
Edward “Leper” Lepellier, from John Knowles’ A Separate Peace, never showed resentment openly. He enlisted in the army during his junior year in high school, but after he saw horrific images during boot camp, he returned home. He went back to school to visit and his peers noticed a significant change in him, psychologica ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... was self-conscious, he was not. He just did not care about what anyone thought of him or was saying about him as long as he was having a good time. Gene, one of his friends, talks about how the snow began to take possession of everything at Devon like the war took possession everything in the world. “Leper Lepellier didn’t suspect this. It was not in fact evident to anyone at first. But Leper stands out for me as the person who was most often and most emphatically taken by surprise, by this and every othe ....