The Wars Robert Ross Quotes

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Attrition and Loss

Throughout The Wars, there are many characters introduced that have their own personal internal or even external battles that they face during their time being represented in the novel. Two such characters are Robert Ross who is depicted as the main character of the book and his mother Mrs. Ross who also plays a large part in the story. These two face similar and different wars that they lose and win at different turns. The mother must face her internal struggle with sending her son off to war to most likely die in the name of king and country. She may not have sent him, but he did choose to go and she couldn’t make him change his mind this led to many scenes of her coming to grips with losing her second child in only a few years after her eldest daughter Rowena, who was very sickly and delicate, had a bad fall and passed away. …show more content…

These experiences have stripped his love for humanity from him and left him in a mentality of near hatred for anyone willing to cause unnecessary death of animals. The two characters have both lost their personal wars purely through having things done to them that no man or woman should be forced to go through.
Robert Ross is the main character in the story and has horrible things done to him and has done things no man should desire to do, these actions have forced him down a path that leads to the wearing down of his love for humanity and his desire to be a soldier; he no longer wants to be a soldier because the actions of others have removed the romanticized idea of a death in sacrifice for king and country. The idea of becoming a soldier came when his

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