After reading the book “A Separate Peace” by John Knowles I didn’t know what to think when I turned the last page. But after much reflection I realize that his book was not meant to entertain you with a storyline but to educate the reader about the realities of the American WWII culture shift. Thus I couldn’t recommend this to someone who is looking for a lengthy novel to read on a long plane ride, something of no greater importance other than to entertain almost mindlessly. Instead “A Separate Peace” is more fitted to a thinker and by those worth a good thought.

As said before the storyline is not this book's strong point. In fact the storyline is actually quite unrememberable. Although John Knowles does a good job making it feel meaningful while you’re reading the book the storyline is just really simple and hard to put a lot of thought into. But when you look at the book as a whole you would find, like I did that the plot is just the frame that John Knowles builds a deeper meaning onto, a meaning that inspires moral and delivers a sense of presence for that place that is rare and far between.

Though “A Separate Peace” contains no real actions and thereby isn’t much of a page turner the cultural history is captured ever so gracefully; enough to give John Knowles’s “A Separate Peace” a higher level, of awesomeness.