A Separate Peace

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…on and join the adult world. Gene's maturation was long, and painful. It is a painful and difficult process that reveals a darker side of Gene that he doesn't necessarily wish to see. However painful, Gene is made a better person during his maturation through all the suffering he had went through. Also all the pain he went through and awful reevaluations about himself, Gene matures from an insecure child to a self knowledgeable adult.