The Wars follows a young Canadian soldier named Robert Ross who is fighting in World War I. Although the main storyline takes place between 1915 and 1922, the narration occasionally switches to interviews with Juliet d’Orsey and Marian Turner (who knew Robert during the war) during the novel’s contemporary time period, roughly sixty years after World War I. Additionally, Findley inserts. The Wars is a 1977 novel by Timothy Findley that follows Robert Ross, a nineteen-year-old Canadian who enlists in World War I after the death of his beloved older sister in an attempt to escape both his grief and the social norms of oppressive Edwardian society. Feb 23, 2017 The protagonist of Timothy Findley's third novel is Robert Ross, a troubled young soldier in the First World War. Ross is haunted by a family tragedy, and traumatized by the worst horrors of. 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. A fanmade movie trailer for novel, The Wars by Timothy Findley. Clips from: Movies - The Poker House and War Horse, Music Videos - BTS and B.A.P.
The Wars is a 1977 novel by Timothy Findley about the experiences of a young Canadian officer in World War I. Findley dedicated the novel to his uncle, Thomas Irving Findley, who fought in the First World War and survived. Findley drew upon letters his uncle had sent, as well as his verbal accounts of life on the front, to draw an image of the war in the novel. Findley reportedly spent a few days on a farm in Ontario, trying to remain warm and clean. Here he gained new respect for how cumbersome mud can make day to day life. Findley also educated himself on the various campaigns that took place in Europe during the times the novel takes place and even sought out a military historian to ensure that the events of the war had been chronicled accurately.
The Waste Land Litchart
The novel took about six months for Findley to complete and went on to win the Governor General's Award for fiction in 1977. A film adaptation, which Findley also wrote, was made in 1981. A theatrical play version of the novel was produced by Dennis Garnhum in 2007.