Part one of term paper
Edward “Leper” Lepellier, from John Knowles’ A Separate Peace, never showed resentment openly. He enlisted in the army during his junior year in high school, but after he saw horrific images during boot camp, he returned home. He went back to school to visit and his peers noticed a significant change in him, psychologically and social ...

Part two of term paper
... play Blitzball with all the other boys at Devon. “‘Leper!’ I threw the ball past a few heads to him. Taken by surprise, Leper looked up at him with anguish, shrank away from the ball, and voiced his first thought, a typical one. ‘I don’t want it,’” (30). Leper had a passive attitude towards life. Although it sounds like Leper was self-conscious, he was not. He just did not care about what anyone thought of him or was saying about him as long as he was having a good time. Gene, ...