The themes hope and fear are two of the main themes played in A Separate Peace. These two themes play an important role in the novel. The reader gets to know how hope helps Gene and Finny to cheer up and live happily. Also, the reader gets to know the opposite through the theme of fear. He gets to know how fear captures the freedom of the human's spirit and creates an enemy within. Moreover, …showed first 75 words of 1295 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1295 total…pushed him out of the tree. He also fears that he may not be able to enlist in the army. Hope is always a winner because it lives forever but fear dies. However, sometimes fear wins over hope. Gene's fears of the truth are more than his hopes that finny get better. The human's spirit is not free because it is captured by human's fears, which could only be destroyed by hope that never dies.