A relationship is an association between two or more people at different degrees. Most relationships are mutual and others are hostile. Mutual relationships are very important as well as delicate. They can keep people together as long as one person doesn't turn there back on the other. In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, a relationship develops between Gene and Phineas. This relationship is very similar to the one between Doodle and his older brother …showed first 75 words of 722 total…

…showed last 75 words of 722 total…nearly impossible accomplishments including walking. The relationship of Phineas and Gene is very similar to the relationship of Doodle and his older brother. In both relationships there was the urge to kill another and the benefit of helping each other. They both ended in the same manner of one betraying the other. A Separate Peace and "The Scarlet Ibis" teach us that a relationship is very important and a terrible thing to waste. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**