A Seperate Peace: Book review

Part One:

            I wasn't really happy with the way this book ended, With Phineas dying and Leper going insane.  Overall it was a really good story and it took my interest from the start to ending.  This book was definitely chosen for its interesting word choice and sentence structure; "bobbing instantly to the surface again, his wet hair plastered in droll bangs to his forehead."  I think this book would look good on peoples permanent records so reading this book might help push them to a better college.  I think the hardest part for me would be the finding things in the book because I'm not really truly sure if I'll be right.  And the parts of explaining the book will be the easiest because when a book is fresh in my mind it sits there, and won't leave, kind of like broccoli on the plate of a seven year old.

Part Two:

            The diction of the novel is neutral diction; with a mix of slang and a little jargon, like "goofy" and nicknames. there is concrete, "The tree was tremendous, an irate, steely black steeple beside the river."  And connotation and denotation, "Finny spoke in his cordial, penetrating voice, that reverberant instrument in his chest." The overall tone in the novel is "Somber", it's like a sad story that has few happy parts for it goes at more of a downfall than a rise. Finny falls out of tree; Leper goes crazy from the war; Finny refuses for there to be war; Gene is blamed for Finny getting hurt; Finny learns that Gene hurting him was the truth; Finny breaks his leg again then dies.  I almost felt like crying the whole story had a downfall in emotions.  I think that the higher the diction and the more complex the tone the more you're going to get out of the book, like learning to read faster.  The higher the diction the harder it is to express the other literary elements.  The tone affects the way the other elements are expressed like the setting; it could be a happy little town in North Dakota, or it could be a military bombing grounds in WWII. Analyzing the tone and diction can increase how you understand the books through tone and diction.