Part one of term paper
The Wars by Timothy Findley is a tragic story of a boy who goes to war, suffers many hardships and never gets to go back home. The novel focuses around a boy named Robert Ross who gets involved in the First World War and realizes that war was not at all what he thought it would be. Robert experiences one tragedy after another as almost all ...

Part two of term paper
... in the first world war. Evidence of this is that the main character, Robert Ross, could represent any soldier who went to war and met a tragic end. Furthermore, from the conflicts on the battlefield, to the conflicts of the mind, to the final conflict before death, like real soldiers, the characters in the novel cannot avoid crises. Finally, Findley’s theme is that war is one horrible tragedy after another for all who are involved. Robert Ross could have been any soldier in the First Wor ...