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Change For the Better Life changes in an instant. One day youre just playing with your friends and the next your whole life is ending. The events that happen in a souls life changes how they are as a soulfulness it can either make them a better person or destroy them. In the novel The Separate Peace Finny grows as a person as the story progresses on, he faces toughie smears that damp hes inner self. In the beginning of the novel, Finny is an outstanding athlete, friendly, and he is able to talk his way out of any tough situation he gets himself into. He is a type of person who will do anything he wants when he wants hes carefree. I was beginning to determine that Phineas could get away with anything (Knowles 18). Finny is adventurous, he comes up with things knowing the risk of him getting in trouble is high. Finnys life was ruled by warmth and anarchy, so he prized a set of rules(Knowles 26). He almost lived by his own rules, he did what he wanted, what made him happy. He i s also quite an innocent making him nave. Finny had deliberately set out to ruin my studies (Knowles 45). He doesnt do anything intentionally he actually thinks so highly of his friends, that they could never do any harm to him. No I just wanted to see if I could do it. Now I know. But I dont want to do it in public(Knowles 35). In the quote stated, his athletic skills really show and so does his innocence. He didnt need the whole school to know that he beat a swimming record him knowing was the best comfort he could have.In the midway of the novel, Finnys life takes a go game and goes downhill from there. Sports are a big part of his life, without it, half of him is fundamentally gone. Sports are finished for him, after an accident li... ...ly achieved when one is able to concede several(prenominal)one who was set out to ruin their life. All in all, tough situations that a person goes done either make them or go bad them. In the novel The Separate Peace innocence vanished from Finny. The situations he went through made him understand life better. That life isnt always sound of happiness there are bumps in the road. He had a harder duration accepting that because his life was amazing in the beginning and he didnt expect it to take a turn that he nearly lost(p) himself. Along with the things he went through he grew as a person the lost of his innocence made him see things clearer that there was bad sides to some situations. Finny saw that when Gene confesses that it was his fault that he fell off the tree, entirely he is mature about it because he was able to forgive Gene. Thats one thing he never lost though, kindness.