Arguments And Methods In Timothy Findley's The Wars

Timothy Findley’s book The Wars is one that has many reviews based upon the methods he uses to convey world war one from various different viewpoints. For instance, Margaret Atwood reviews and writes about Findley’s novel in a chapter of her book “Second Words”. In this chapter she presents three reasons why The Wars is a big narrative occasion. Atwood approaches the novel with three arguments first, the importance of the publication. The second point she makes is how the novel is being critic in literary newspapers and third, the significance of the text itself. This paper will focus on an assessment of Margaret Atwood’s excerpt, specifically on her arguments and methods to prove the points she is making. Atwood starts off her chapter mentioning the significance of the publication of the novel. A company that only used to publish textbooks published The Wars and if they were to publish fiction it would be a discreet novel, Findley’s novel is not discreet
This part is where she spends a majority of the review discussing how the novel is successful (Atwood, 292). Atwood starts her argument off by suggesting that the novel is accomplished due to the fact that is it a genre that is not popular and is written by a serious writer (Atwood, 292). She also talks about how his book is one that creates experience and has a film narrative to it (Atwood, 293). Atwood has a strong argument due to the fact she gives examples of what aspects of the book emit a film perception. Along with this Atwood brings up a compelling point about the use of “you” and the method of the book. She indicates that Findley’s use of “you” could be the author or it could be the reader, due to this Atwood says the method of the book acts like a detective story (Atwood, 293). This evaluation was intriguing given that most of the readers would not have thought of the method of that book to be