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Robert Ross is a hero

            Robert's joining the army, is his response to many changing conditions in his home. He perceives this as a good move, which would provide many new features to his life including stability, respect, and what we'll be talking about today, heroism. The soldiers Robert runs off to fall into ranks with, are perceived as heroes and the unsaid connotations of how they are viewed by others as Heroic, exist frequently and quite prominently throughout the book. Examples of this can be seen from the beginning of the story. Upon leaving the train station to depart for the war the description of the hallways in the train provides a perfect example of the typical soldier description. "There must have been three dozen - forty or fifty - all coming down from Toronto together - joining others from as far away as Winnipeg and Saskatoon. Most of them had swaggered up and down the cars like braggarts - smoking cigarettes and drinking out of silver flasks." This shows the typical social side of a heroic soldiers life. Carrying on with little restraint they are portrayed as doing nothing more than smoking and drinking, providing little privacy and generally being happy. They are seen as being in a constant state of drunken bliss, and never having to worry about any of the issues of the real world. Another example of this preconceived typical hero aspect of things again is portrayed this time through Robert's eyes. After arriving in England, one afternoon Robert sees Eugene Taffler enter a room with Barbara D'Orsey. The effect of his appearance on Robert was enormous as Taffler was described as "looking more like a Boy's Own Annual hero than ever, dressed in his uniform with it's green field tabs; carrying a swagger stick and groomed within an inch of his life. He'd just had his hair cut - a sure sign he was returning to the front." This clean cut description of a decorated officer is how the soldiers are portrayed as heroes to one another and to the public.


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1. The Wars Within The Wars

Ross and her inability to allow Robert to become a man. ... The most important war to the plot of the book was the one involving Robert's image as a hero versus his many failures. ... For Robert Ross, this was no less true. ... Robert was a good runner and when he decided to run around the block 26 times, in likeness of his hero Longboat, success was close within his grasp. ... This failure ultimately leads to the death of Ross and only then did people begin to even consider him as a hero. ...

  • Word Count: 1286
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  • Grade Level: High School

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As the novel ends with Robert Ross' passing on, these words attempt to sum up his life. ... In order to earn his status as a hero along with the admiration and attention of others, Robert had to ascend these hurdles. ... For Robert Ross' final hurdle, he must pass the test of fire. ... In the life of Robert Ross the element of fire is an obstacle. ... She was also a friend of Robert Ross's and she witnessed the scars that Robert was left with after being in a fire. ...

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3. The Wars

Robert Ross is seen as both, depending on whose story is being told and whose point of view you look at. ... Here's how one of Robert's nurses viewed him " My opinion was- he was a hero. ... But a hero nonethless. ... That is the view of one person on Robert Ross see viewed him as a hero where as somebody else may have viewed him as a coward for his actions. ... On going during the story they use pictures to set up the life of Robert Ross. ...

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4. Crap

Aurora: In your books there is also a search for a hero. In The Wars, the protagonist is seen as a hero because he cares for human and animal life, and then dies because of that conviction. ... The thing that moved me in writing that book was that Robert Ross believed above all else in life. ... Aurora: In The Wars, you write of Robert Ross: "He did the thing that no one else would ever dare to think of doing. And that to me is as good a definition of hero as you'll get. ...

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5. Findley's The Wars and Themes

Ross. ... Ross becomes blind after she learns her son is missing in action. ... Making Robert a true hero because a hero endures to the end and that is what Robert did. (172-173) Themes help to enhance characters, their relationships, and the overall meaning of the novel. ... These themes helped to develop Robert Ross" character, his relationships with his family and friends, and the overall meaning of the novel. With these pieces the reader is given a deeper knowledge and meaning of The Wars through the author's eyes and the main character, Robert Ross. ...

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Robinson), Dustin Hoffman (Benjamin Braddock), Katherine Ross (Elaine Robinson), William Daniels (Mr. ... The film was nominated by the Academy in 1967 for several categories including Best Actor (Hoffman), Best Actress (Bancroft), Best Adapted Screenplay (Henry, Willingham), Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Ross), Best Cinematography (Robert Sutees), and only won the Oscar for the Best Director (Mike Nichols). ... Robinson's daughter, Elaine (Katherine Ross). ... Robert Redford was tesed but the role of a hesitant boy with women did not fit him. ... However, Dustin's nervous a...

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For example, in the book Infant and Child, by Judith Rich Harris and Robert M. ... It felt fun to imitate these so called heroes because it seemed like the characters in the movies were invincible. ... Ross. ... In addition, Bandura, Ross and Ross had predicted that the subjects who saw aggressive behavior being displayed would consequently be more aggressive when frustrated than the subjects who were as frustrated but had not been exposed to prior aggression. ... In fact, Bandura, Ross and Ross have concluded that boys are more likely to imitate violent behavior and their aggression comes ...

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9. The Revisionist Western

The hero is brave, honorable, and valiant. ... Etta Place (Katherine Ross), the films leading female character, plays a new type of woman character. ... The hero dies, skewing the classic portrait of the western hero, who was immortal, in essence. ... Robert Altman, Director of the film, took ideas that were present in the classic westerns and put a more realistic spin on them. ... Our hero in Unforgiven is William Munny. ...

  • Word Count: 1538
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