![]() Robert Ross enlists in the army to escape the guilt he feels after the recent death of his sister, Rowena, who died from falling out of her wheelchair while playing with her beloved rabbits in the barn. He decides to free a herd of horses from the train, and the prologue ends with the horses, rider, and dog all running as a herd. Robert, the horse, and the dog seem to have been together for a while, as they understand each other. ![]() ![]() There is evidence of war, and Ross is shown to be in the company of a black horse and a dog. A nearby building is on fire, and a train is stopped. The novel is also an example of historiographic metafiction.Ī young man named Robert Ross is introduced as squatting in a tattered Canadian military uniform, with a pistol in hand. The narrative moves between voices, each telling part of Robert's story. The Wars utilizes first-, second-, and third-person narrative points of view, which is very rare in literature. 4.1 Introduction by Guy Vanderhaeghe (2005).
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