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Leper sprang up all over the world at the core of every Allied success.
(Pg. 126)
This is clearly an exaggeration, but the boys are changing their minds about the war now that Leper's enlisted. The theme here could be that Leper is trying to change his ways. Or maybe he wants to see for himself if the war is serious.
“Do you think I want to here every gory detail! Shut up! I don’t care! I don’t care what happened to you, Leper. I don’t give a damn! Don’t you under stand that? This has nothing to do with me! Nothing at all! I don’t care!” (Pg. 151)
“I guess I am. I must be. Am I, though, or is the army? Because they turned everything inside out. I couldn’t sleep in my bed; I had to sleep everywhere else. I couldn’t eat in the mess hall; I had to eat everywhere else. Everything began to turn inside out. Page 150
"I escaped!" the word surging out in a voice and intensity that was not Leper's. His face was furious, but his eyes denied the fury; instead they saw it before them. They were filled with terror." p.143
“Maybe everybody imagines things like that when they’re away from home, really far away, for the first time. Do you think so?” (Chapter 10, Page 149)
"....now I was acquiring, I felt, a sense of my own real authority and worth, I had had many new experiences and I was growing up" (148).
"the idea of his face on a woman's body. That's what made me psycho. Ideas like that. I don't know. I guess they must be right. I guess I am psycho. I guess I must be. I must be. Did you ever have ideas like that (149)?"
"Normal," he repeated bitterly. "What a stupid-ass word that is. I suppose that's what you're thinking about, isn't it? That's what you're thinking about, somebody like you. You're thinking I'm not normal, aren't you? I can see what you're thinking-I see a lot I never saw before"-his voice fell to a querulous whisper-"you're thinking I'm a psycho (143)."
"Like a savage underneath, like the time you knocked Finny out of the tree." Page 145 Chapter 10
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"psyco. I guess I am. I must be. Am I, though, or is the army?"
A Seperate Peace, Page 150
"Leper didn't bother to make a rejoinder. Before there had always been his polite capping of remarks."
Page 147
"What has she got to be pleased about!" He glared challengingly to my startled face. "I'm pleasing myself!" he cried fervently, and i saw tears trembling to his eyes. pg 142
"you always were a lord of the manor weren't you? A swell guy except when the chips were down. You always were a savage"
pg 145
"You always were a lord of the manor, weren't you? A swell guy, except when the chips were down. You always were a savage underneath (pg 145)"
"Do you think I want to hear every gory detail!Shut up! I don't care! I don't care what happened to you, Leper. I don't give a damn! Do you understand that? This has nothing to do with me! Nothing at all! I don't care!" (Pg. 151)
"You always were a savage underneath. I always knew that only I never admitted it. But in the last few weeks...I admitted a hell of a lot to myself...It's you we happen to be talking about now."
"I escaped!" the word surging out in a voice and intensity that was not Leper's. His face was furious, but his eyes denied the fury; instead they saw it before them. They were filled with terror." (143)
"The sun was the blessing of the morning, the one celebrating element, an aesthete with no purpose except to shed radiance. Everything else was sharp and hard, but this Grecian sun evoked joy from every angularity and blurred with brightness the stiff face of the countryside. As I walked...the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck." (Chapter 10, pg.140)
-The brightness of the sun suggests that the long, cold winter and its hardship of the landscape is going to end soon, with the approach of spring.
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