The Wars
If you took a sensitive caring person and set them in the midst of a chaotic area, what do you think would, happen? Would these person adapt to this area, and live like everyone else, or would they become a mental mess unable to cope with what is going on around them? This was the theme of the novel The Wars by Timothy Findley, that is exactly what happened. Findley took a sensitive caring individual, Robert Ross and sent him to war. Ross became unable to cope with all of the events that were taking place around him, and eventually went insane. The life that Robert Ross had lived before was nothing compared to what he was experiencing during war. When Robert Ross was a child he was the captain of everything, a popular and academic student. Friends and family loved him, and he was the ideal of any boy in the community. One would think that Robert would have no problem handling the world he lived in, but that would be an inaccurate statement. The first sign of trouble, was Rowena뭩 death. Robert and Rowena were very close as brother and sister, losing one another was unbearable for Robert, which started a spiral down to the end result, insanity. Little things like killing Rowena뭩 rabbits could not be done,
It was the nurturing of these people and animals that kept Robert Ross occupied. Often the story jumps to monologues by miss Juliet D뭀rsey to explain what kind of a person Robert Ross was during critical points in the story. But for someone as sensitive as Robert Ross, war wasn뭪 where he should have gone. However, Robert does not want to have the rabbits killed and he does not want to do it. But in the end, helping all the time ended up as being the destruction of himself. These were strong men, who could handle much more than the average human would be able to. 밫he air in front of him was filled with little fires but the horse was not dead. The helping out gave Robert Ross the idea that his life is worth something. I believe that using this time sequence, to create a chaotic atmosphere just like, the world Robert Ross is in. If this did not occur the novel would be much too depressing to read because of the constant view of war. Through out the story, Timothy Findley keeps bring up the use of fire. " page 18 This quote expresses the pain both mentally and physically that Robert Ross experiences.
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