A in depth anaylysis (described below)

ANALYSIS OF THE WARS (PART FIVE , SECTIONS 14 AND 15

Section 14 is the third interview with Marian Turner , a Canadian nurse In her first interview , she deemed Robert Ross a hero for trying to save the horses (which the good ' soldiers destroyed ) and says he was not crazy rather , the war was (10 . Also , when one considers another such quote - Robert Ross was no Hitler . That was his problem (11 ) - one is aware that his madness ' lay in his lack of monstrous bevahior

In Section 14 , Marian Turner 's advanced age

shows , since at the start her mind wanders a little as she musses over the proper name for the Bois de Madeleine . She was the sole survivor of the Canadian nurses whose field hospital was bombed , along with the mascot , a white cat which seems to symbolize the continuity of life . In war , human life destroys itself by design , but life continues in unintended ways (Also , the cat 's whiteness might symbolize its relative purity , since it does not participate in the slaughter

She recalls when Ross was brought to the hospital just after the bombing , as much a wreck as the facility itself . He is guarded by a Canadian MP , which seems irrational considering that he is badly burned and unable to flee , but this is standard military procedure , which has its own sense of logic

When Marian speaks of her lone conversation with Robert , she is silhouetted against the window , her face unlit as she says , I wanted to help him die . I 'm a nurse . I 've never offered death to anyone (215 , as though she descends into darkness when showing her desire to take life rather than save it

When she recalls her state of mind - I am ashamed to be alive . I am ashamed of life (215 ) - she reveals her own sense of impossibility and her sense of war 's insanity . At this moment , Robert is the catalyst for her own change of mind and heart . She offers to help Robert die (by overdosing him with the morphine she has hoarded , but he answers , Not yet ' Despite his pain and mutilation , as well as the rish of a court-martial , his will to live and to survive remains obvious . After recounting this , Marian claims , Not yet has been my motto ever since (216 , implying that some of his will and desire to survive and transcend the madness has rubbed off on her

In Section 15 , Findley reverts to an omniscient narrator , who tells the reader that Ross was court-martialed but remained hospitalized due to his failing health . His final photo illustrates Robert 's sense of mind and sense of satisfaction at having succeeded , to some degree , in his desperate act . He is badly disfigured but smiling , perhaps out of a sense of victory . He kept Juliet 's love , survived the war 's madness and brutality , and escaped imprisonment and execution for defying military authority he achieved what he tried to do , though...