For kids, jobs are all based on money, fame or just being recognized. We all want to be the big man, the most popular or just well respected. We see people on television or read about them in books and sometimes we dream about being that person and think we can handle it. When we, as humans, grow up, tend to know what we want to be and who we want to be, but we never really think about the truth about ourselves. A simple incident can change who we think we are. This is evident through Robert Ross and Othello. They think they know what they want but then change view in their own ways. Things change as we grow up and what we thought was good at that time, doesn't always stay that way.
             Robert Ross was the main character in the novel "The Wars" by Timothy Findley. He was like many boys, wanting to become a war hero when he grew up. He had such faith in senior officers, in the ideals of glory and heroism and patriotism. He wanted to be all that. His decision to go to war was basically made when his sister died. Robert Ross and his sister, Rowena, had a very close relationship. She depended on Robert to care for her, as she was unable to do so herself. Robert would think of her as one of the only stable things in his life- she is always there. She is the first person he remembers seeing and this seems to make him feel very comfortable around her. "When she smiled, he thought she was his mother. Later, when he came to realize she couldn't walk anymore and never left the chair, he became her guardian. It was for her he learned to run" (page 14). In being Rowena's guardian, Robert feels a great responsibility towards her safety. This makes him feel that her death was actually his fault, even though he was not supposed to be watching her at that time. He was distraught when she died and never seemed to forgive himself. Her death had such an im
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