<Tab/>Maturity is a matter that is often disregarded by many people, especially teenagers. Eventually everyone has to face and accept maturity leaving their profound young innocence in their past. In the novel, The Separate Peace, John Knowles writes about how teenagers came into the academy of Devon and matured from innocence to experience. It shows the struggle of kids during WWII, trying to cope with what was happening and several …showed first 75 words of 923 total…

…showed last 75 words of 923 total…them. Throughout the novel, Finny is forced to mature from a content child into a bit bitter and disabled young man. His accident was the main cause of his maturity; he left his boyish life behind to continue on with his devastating life as a cripple. Often people try to avoid change such as from young to old, both physically and mentally, but eventually everyone has to deal with maturity and must grow from it.