By Timothy Findley The Wars (Later Printing) Paperback Feb 14, 1986. Paperback More Buying Choices $19.34 (7 used offers) By Timothy Findley The Wars (8th THUS) Paperback Dec 17, 1995. 5.0 out of 5 stars 1. Paperback $133.44 $ 133. Only 2 left in stock - order soon. Robert Ross has become a man, an extraordinary one, in his one year at war. Timothy Findley is also gifted in creating minor characters who linger in the reader’s mind. Who can forget Rodwell. 1 Findley, a novelist, playwright, essayist, and short story writer, won many awards for his work. He; 1 It would be hard to exaggerate the importance and impact of war on the life and work of Canadian author Timothy Findley (1930-2002). 1 Although he was born in well-to-do Rosedale, Toronto, the two world wars reached deeply into that safe, comfortable world to twist or destroy the lives of.

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The setting in the novel “The Wars” by Timothy Findley is set during World War I in Canada and Europe. The war was the reality of that time, and this book talks about the life of a man named Robert Ross who decided to join the army. Findley used Robert’s character and the omniscient view of it to show the cruelty of war. When war happens, it affects everyone that is present. It affects not just an individual that goes into war; it also affects the loved ones around that individual. Though this novel is written in an omniscient point of view, Findley uses Robert as the main character above all heads to express the experiences he had in the army.

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Robert experiences restlessness and the hardship of a soldier. It was a dangerous war that most people did not understand. Soldiers were told to kill their enemies. As for Robert, his enemy was the Germans. Going into battle, there is no mercy. Corpses were everywhere, shells were being blown, air raids and guns were to be avoided. It was the colour of hell that he saw. Being in this situation was so dangerous that most people were scared of sleeping. Soldiers didn’t care if they were dead or alive, their orders were to eliminate the Germans and hope for the war to end.

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No man can be the same after war. Robert was no longer the same naïve and kind man he used to be. His duty as a soldier put him in a setting of hell which later on made him dark, depressed and negative. If war was beautiful, maybe all veterans would come home being the same. But the setting of war is not. Through his experiences and where his experiences were set, in the end he was brainwashed by his memories to believe that life was not meaningful. It’s war.