A Separate Peace

Why do you think Gene wonders how Leper's theory applies to him, to Phineas, and to Leper.

How do you think Leper's theory might apply to each of the three boys?

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Leeper thinks he never "evolved" in the right way being sheltered in a private school. War was too much for, he felt, guys like him. Gene wonders whether all of the boys at Devon sheltered in their own isolated social community have not evolved as well.

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