Plot
This tragic event sets Robert's enlistment in the military in to play.
What is Rowena's death?
The youthful Canadian officer who serves as the novel's protagonist.
Who is Robert Ross?
This conflict was referred to as the war to end all wars.
What is World War 1?
This prevalent animal in the novel represents innocence and duty.
What are horses?
Reader response theory can often be associated with this reflective object.
What is a mirror?
The name of the ship that transports Robert overseas to Europe.
What is the S.S. Massanabie
The name of the soldier who was once a veterinarian and cares deeply for wounded animals.
Who is Rodwell?
This battlefield is where Robert encounters trench warfare.
Where is Ypres, Belgium?
This component represents both purification and renewal, while also representing brutality and tarnish when mixed with another element.
What is water?
Meaning from the text is created by who.
Who is the reader?
Robert's murder of Captain Leather and Private Cassles results in this judicial event.
What is a court-martial?
The names of Barbara/Juliet d'Orsey's brothers.
Who is Clive and Michael d'Orsey?
This chemical weapon nearly kills Robert and Poole.
What is Mustard gas?
Eugene Taffler redefines this social construct after his homosexual depiction in the novel.
What is masculinity?
When two readers interpret the same event differently or similarly, they illustrate this Stanley Fish concept.
What is an interpretive community?
What is a coyote?
Robert sees who shot in the back on the trail while delivering ammunition with his horse convoy.
Who is Clifford Purchas?
The novel references this real-life Canadian military unit.
What is the Canadian Expeditionary Force?
Robert's conscience leads him to free and fight for natures interest representing what.
A literary interpretation is derived from what aspects of the reader. (At least 3)
What are values, emotions, experiences, beliefs and environment?
Juliet places what game under Major Terry’s door as a prank, causing him to believe Barbara rejected him and leave quickly.
What is the “Pin the Tail on the Donkey” game?
The name of the soldier that Robert aids with his urinated cloth to protect from the chemical gas attack.
Who is Bates?
Canada's Prime Minister during WW1.
Who Sir Robert Laird Borden?
The onslaught of death and destruction limits the human understanding between soldiers leading to what.
What is dehumanization?
Louise Rosenblatt describes the relationship between the author and the reader as what transferring what.
What is transactional theory and the transaction of experiences, knowledge and emotions from the reader in exchange for the authors structure/blueprint of text?