help! and tell me what this 'means' "The more things remain the same, the more they change after all." I can't think.. and this is due friday.. meh..
um i just asked my mom who got a degree in english and is a fucking genius... and she pretty much said it means nothing
i'm uuber confused :& i think the dude has taken a well known phrase and twisted it so it makes no sense.... anyway i got this off an essay site A Separate Peace deals with themes of envy, violence, and hatred, but the overall theme is stated on page six; "The more things remain the same, the more they change after all. Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not death by violence." This is stated by Gene after looking at the infamous tree 15 years after his schooling at Devon had commenced. The tree is the same it has always been, but in his mind has been dwarfed by time and his physical growth. This is also true of the Devon School when he revisits it. The school is the same as ever, but is vividly different in his mind. There had been an atmosphere of fear, animosity, struggle, competitiveness, fun, and heartache at Devon when he had attended. Now that he is not a student, that is all gone.
meh i just put "The more things remain the same, the more they change after all. I think Gene meant that about the tree. That even though it's still pretty much the same as it had been 15 years ago, everything around it has changed so much, that the tree loses it's magnificence."
God, I hated that book... Wait a minute...This is a sophomore English summer reading assignment? I had to read that in 8th grade English. That's totally not fair.
I would if i could....i have nothing else to do that and i'm on love with you...... on a side note, i have a job interview tomorrow :H
on love? was that a typo or not? Cos if it wasn't then..it's really funny Butt..I got another one.. "He was my height-five feet eight and a half inches (I had been claiming five feet nine inches before he became my roommate, but he had said in public with that simple, shocking self acceptance of his, "No, you're the same height I am, five-eight and a half. We're on the shirt side") That's all you need...The question is Why does Finny refuse to lie about his height?
