The Wars by Timothy Findley is a tragic story of a boy who goes to war, suffers many hardships and never gets to go back home. The novel focuses around a boy named Robert Ross who gets involved in the First World War and realizes that war was not at all what he thought it would be. Robert experiences one tragedy after another as almost all of his friends die off and finally Robert passes away as well. After being horribly burned, he dies 6 years later on a hospital bed. The novel deals with all aspects of war and a soldier’s life, but mo ....