Analysis Of The Wars By John Findley

Additionally, it does not express a complete thought which leaves a reader with an unclarified sentence with many questions and thoughts of what could be the essential truth. Perhaps, the most noticeable aspect in The Wars is the fact that Findley uses incomplete sentences on the readers which makes the reader fill in the gaps on the important sentences. This is evident when the protagonist in the novel The Wars is on his way to Bailleul and comes across a small farm and notices that there is a cow in the yard and “he thought: there cannot be war” (Findley, 167). This sentence leaves a gap for the reader to fill in, as they are left without any answer why Robert believed there could not be war because of the cow present. As a reader, there
The theme of animals in present here as throughout The Wars it is seen that Robert has connection with animals as Robert has a sense of freedom and realness with animals then he has with humans which ties in why Robert feels a sense of goodness with the cow in the yard as there is no way there could be war because after coming back from war he feels drained and not himself and the cow symbolizes Robert old self and makes him still believe that goodness still exists in the war. Findley is concerned with how humans make meaning through the visual perception, as Findley wants readers to be able to see and interpret his text, because he wants readers to give their own perception on what they believe is happening in a scene because there is never one answer to a story which is evident in The Wars as there are various parts in the novel that could not be told which indeed the “determinate absence which is also the principle of its identity” (Brydon,
Also, Findley wants the reader to create their own identity or truth of the text as there are many parts of the scenes that are left out which takes away from the meaning of the text; it is essentially up to the reader to fill in Findley’s opened text is to find a meaning. Hence, there are various parts in The Wars that are left questioned by readers, but no reader is ever negates or invalidates another, since interpretation of a text is a subjective construction which is evident when the parents of Robert Ross were informed news that Robert was missing in action. When Mrs. Ross had heard the news, she was devastated by this news and claimed she was blind when she was shouting for help as she apparently could see which is what she had told Mister Ross “I’m blind, said Mrs. Ross. I’ve gone blind.” (Findley, 186) There is a variety of ways how one can interpret this sentence, as why Mrs. Ross is claiming to be blind after Robert is seen to be missing. From a reader response theoretical approach, one can look as Mrs. Ross metaphorically goes blind because of the strong connection between both Mrs. Ross and