A Few Good Men Character Analysis

“You can’t handle the truth!” One of the most famous movie lines in the history of filmmaking stated by Colonel Nathen Jessep played by Jack Nicholson in the movie A Few Good Men. This movie starts as a couple of U.S. marines are convicted of murder at the military base in Guantanamo Bay Cuba. The two men receive a lawyer named Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee played by Tom Cruise. Together he and his team of lawyers save the falsely accused marines and convict the Colonel for ordering a “code red”. The second work of literature, A Separate Peace, written by John Knowles is about a set of boys who attend a boarding school in New England. The greatest tension in the novel exists mostly between the two characters, Gene and Phineas (Finny). These two

The shared traits between these two characters exist in their superior knowledge and the way they harm or attempt to harm their competition. Capitan Ross is a lawyer from the Marine Corps who represents the United States of America. He has been working out of law school much longer than Kaffee has. His time with the marines and the experience he has in a courtroom gives him the superior intellectual knowledge of how military trials work. His affiliation with the marines also gives him knowledge of terms such as “code red” and the consequences of question a respected officer. Scene 7 “What do you know about code reds? asked Kaffee, Ross replied with “Are we off the record… good well let me tell you something before you go get yourself in trouble over there (Cuba)”. Gene Forrester is the narrator in the story, and the reason for the untimely demise of Finny. Gene feels his only way to compete with finny is his superior academic intellect and Gene tries to express that as much as possible as shown on page 54. “ I became quite a student after that. I had always been a good one, although I wasn’t really interested and excited in learning itself… Finny had no way of knowing this, because it all happened so far ahead of him scholastically.” Although the characters being compared do not have the same degree of intellectual superiority, the similarity still exists. The next contention for the similarities between these two characters involves the way they hurt their counterpart. In A Separate Piece Gene jounces the limb of a branch and causes Finny to fall tens of feet to the ground where he shattered his leg, causing permanent damage. ”Holding firmly to the trunk, I took a step toward him, and then my knees bent and I jounced the limb. Finny his balance gone, swung his head around to look at e for a second with extreme interest and then he tumbled sideways, broke through the