The Wars discussion

If you took a sensitive caring person and set them in the midst of a chaotic area, what do you think would, happen? Would these person adapt to this area, and live like everyone else, or would they become a mental mess unable to cope with what is going on around them? This was the theme of the novel The Wars by Timothy Findley, that is exactly what happened. Findley took a sensitive caring individual, …

…not survive. Robert Ross was a sensitive person to people around him, sending him to an area of, chaos, destruction and murder, was unbearable for him to handle, and ultimately drove him to death. But the question that you wonder when you read this novel, was what Robert did really a crime. I do not believe it was, but rather a attempt to make a sensible decision that had positive effects once during the war.