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“The one-room cabins looked like hog pens afterward! They had destroyed the furniture in the cabins and there were beer cans and whiskey bottles all over the place. It was hard to see”. On a lighter side, driving back to Ozark the next morning with Sheriff Lamb, Ozark Police Chief Speaks heard a loud POP! A few minutes later, he smelled something strange. “You smell that Buff?” “No, what?” “Something smells funny. Like maybe it's burning? Stop the car and let's look in the trunk!” The two opened

all strange, Robert thought. Everyone is strange in a war I guess. Ordinary is a myth" (Findley 101). As the wars are so anxious soldiers fight for days, weeks and months without sleeping, eating, bathing; they lack basic nessecties of life. As Robert states, "All he [Robert] wanted was a dream. Escape. But nobody dreams on a battlefield. There isn't any sleep that long. Dreams and distances are the same" ( Findley 102) a soldier cannot fall asleep because of the terror and stressful conditions but

The Fragments of History; Deconstructing the Past and the Present in The Wars Timothy Findley in his novel The Wars uses a postmodern device where the narration is nonlinear in chronology, making it subjective and more based on memory, ultimately deeming the reader’s perception of the past and the present to be precarious and unreliable. The Wars focuses on a young Canadian WWI officer named Robert Ross. Robert’s story is recounted after his death through many other characters such as Marian Turner

“In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded” (Classon). Everyone goes through hardships, however they are experienced disparately. In a narrative, an author chooses a point of view specific to emphasize certain aspects of their narrative. The two types of point of views employed in “The Wars,” “Mrs. Akbar,” and “Fronteras Americanas” are first person and third person omniscient, respectively. Third person omniscient point of view is an “all-knowing kind of narrator” (“Omniscient

Maciej Piorkowski 250651104 ENG 4740F Alicia Robinet December 4, 2014 Surviving The Wars: Binary Disintegrations of Homosociality and Homosexuality An overarching social paradox is inherent in the way Canadian citizens internalize the notion of civic duty; while violent participation in the Great War is lauded as personal and national achievement, post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from significant trauma, physical or social, is also recognized as an integral part of the military consciousness

Lady Juliet has placed one foot in the past and one in the present. As Lady Juliet reads out loud from her diaries, her voice is described by one of the archivists as a “song” and how “the voice then quavers - cracks and is reduced to a helpless whisper.” The total “effect” of Lady Juliet’s voice is described as, “both magical and devastating - for you know that what you hear is the voice of someone near death - and the wisdom remains a child’s.” (143). Just as the past and the present are contradictions

Robert Ross and Holden Caulfield’s stages of growing up The authors Timothy Findley and J.D. Salinger have similarities and differences in their novels: The Wars and The Catcher in The Rye, regarding the main characters Robert Ross and Holden Caulfield. Both characters go through similar stages of growing up which are isolation and sexual innocence. However, Robert Ross reaches a destination in his journey of growing up and finds himself, but Holden Caulfield remains lost. Robert and Holden face

necessary for upbringing children and the lack of skills a parent diagnosed with Schizophrenia can be the cause or, “might appear to be the clear-cut biological process which is hopelessly confounded by nurturing issues” (Keltner, James, Darling, Findley, & Oliver, 2001, p.90). It’s obvious to understand the fact that a parent that is not in a normal state of mind is unable to raise a child to normalcy. The undivided balance in how the child thinks in-compassion to the parent with schizophrenia can

romantic and heroic. But, these ideas have faded and vanished throughout the course of the 20th century. War can be horrific, like a bad nightmare, and can easily break the human spirit, which is not a t all fragile. In his novel, "The Wars", Timothy Findley develops the idea that war, in and of itself, is meaningless, unjustified, and irrational. PART I "The Wars" is a story told by means of a (fictional) historic research document. The plot is pieced together from different accounts and recollections

Rowena so simply if he has been clinging onto her memory for so long? Robert does take initiative and destroys the only thing that he has left of Rowena; however, it is indeed for a worthy cause, and according to Findley, “an act of charity” instead of an “act of anger”. The charity that Findley notes of alludes to Robert himself than Rowena. From burning the photograph of his sister, he is releasing the guilt he has been