Beginning of a Theme

 Every story in the history of writing has a theme, some are very easy to come across and some you really have to look for. The one that I have found in “The Wars” is right there in the middle. To some it may be obvious and to others it might be difficult. I believe to what I have read so far in the novel the theme is based around guilt. The guilt that Robert Ross is trying to run away from and hide in hope he forgets it all. The guilt in his mind is the death of his older sister Rowena. As soon as she dies he tries to find a way to leave his home. By joining the army he puts as much space as he can from him and his family. Some foreshadowing that I link  to this theme, is at the beginning of the novel when Robert sets free all of the trapped horses. This makes me think that it is like him trying to free all of his trapped guilt. He also runs away with all of these horses into the woods showing he is running from the guilt and heartbreak he faced. Hopefully this is indeed one of the themes that Timothy Findley has left for me to find. I’m sure the further I read into it the more I will find about either my theme or even a new theme.