My opinion about the novel "The Wars" by Timothy Findley would be good. Out of all the novels that we currently discussed in class it was one of my favorite thus far. It was well written and it wasn't, in my opinion, the typical war novel. This novel gives the reader an alternate look into just how harsh the lifestyles of deployed troops were during this war, the things that these men had to face on a daily basis is appalling. Personally I don't think I would be able to go to war because just the idea of the unknown routine alone would cause me to over react and probably die from stress.
This may be a bad way to put it but I do not like reading in the slightest, but this book had the power to draw me into its catchy plot and I wasn’t able to put it down after I had started. I guess it could be because of my fascination towards these types of things; just the types of things people had to face in order to get to the society we're living in today.
It almost like the reader grew this attachment to Robert, the reader almost dreads the idea of something bad happening to this young man, just starting to experience the world really. Its really a sad thing to see his innocence stripped from him, without it being his own wish. Another thing that was hard to bare on top of all that is going on with his life was the scene when Robert was raped by his fellow soldiers, this was probably in my opinion the hardest scene of the novel. It left Robert, whom was already lost of majority of his innocence to someone having none is a sad thing.
Overall it was a great, easy read and I would definitely recommend this to anyone with an interest in this area of history, Timothy Findley does a miraculous job getting his message across and proves that he is an amazing Canadian author!
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