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Robert's joining the army, is his response to many changing conditions in his home. He perceives this as a good move, which would provide many new features to his life including stability, respect, and what we'll be talking about today, heroism. The soldiers Robert runs off to fall into ranks with, are perceived as heroes and the unsaid connotations of how they are viewed by others as Heroic, exist frequently and quite prominently throughout the book. Examples of this can be seen from the beginning of the story. Upon leaving the train station to depart for the war the description of the hallways in the train provides a perfect example of the typical soldier description. "There must have been three dozen - forty or fifty – all coming down from Toronto together – joining others from as far away as Winnipeg and Saskatoon. Most of them had swaggered up and down the cars like braggarts – smoking cigarettes and drink