The Short Story War By Timothy Findley

Feelings are when someone shows their emotion or sensitivity. Humans have the necessity to feel angry, happy, sad, etc. Is something natural and our body reacts in different ways, the body would cry with the feeling of sadness or happiness, or would become red with the feeling of anger and stress. In different situations our feelings take control of our actions and make us act in irresponsible way for example, a family situation. The mentality of a child is different from an adult, their Knowledge comes from experience and they believe to know what is best for children, but adults make the mistake of mistrusting, they make the children start to feel inferior and they start to have feelings of anger, sadness, and pity themselves. In the short story “war” by Timothy Findley, the main character goes through numerous of feelings that were a product of his father mistrust and his own understanding of war.
Neil at 10-years-old boy whose father was going to war, he felt left behind when he was the only one who didn’t know his own father was going to war. For example, “… I just couldn’t forgive him. He hadn’t even told me … but he’d told Bud-he’d told Bub, but I was the one He’d promised to show how to skate”1 He felt this way for several reasons. Neil through he had a close relationship with his father, having the honour of knowing something from his father, but his father thought he was too young to understand the meaning of