A Separate Peace: Changes Edward “Leper” Lepellier, from John Knowles’ A Separate Peace, never showed resentment openly. He enlisted in the army during his junior year in high school, but after he saw horrific images during boot camp, he returned home. He went back to school to visit and his peers noticed a significant change in him, psychologically and socially. He changed from being a quiet detached person, to a person who expressed his anger toward anything that agitated him in the slightest way. Leper did not enjoy doing things with other people. He did not jump out of trees with Gene and Finny; they were the closest things to friends he had. Anot