findley's the wars

In his writing of The Wars, Findley brings to light certain views of romantic love, essentially he says that love is a fleeting emotion, and cannot often hold up to the trials of human life. But when it does hold up, it is stronger than any attempt to crush it could ever be, even the mind numbing horrors of war. This notion of love is displayed in various forms throughout the text of the novel, …

…loving someone after they have died and keep them alive in your heart, if not in person. His love for friends and family, and his love of animals and the memories of times they had shared were able to sustain him through the rough periods towards the end of his life, and maybe we will be able to learn something about compassion and love from this piece to sustain us through our own troubling times.