is the look of a dead person who is no longer breathing. The two pictures, both mentioned together at the end of the novel, but taken at different points of Robert's life, display the extreme transformation that has taken place in his life. It makes you look back over all that has happened to Robert and determine what took place for him to have gone through such a change.Another important aspect of the pictures, mainly the first one, is the extreme desensitisation Robert had gone through. In the pictures, Robert's love for animals is shown, first with the horses and then somehow with the animals scull as he holds it gently like a crystal figurine. Something serious must have happened for him to go from the point he was. Wherein he loved the horses, rabbits (which he fed daily), and "trench pets" to the point where he killed a man (his officer) with less hesitation then it took for him to kill a lamed horse (on the boat).The pictures make the you/me the reader realise how far Robert has gone compared to where he came from. They capture the beginning and end results of Roberts's "wars"(not only the physical battles). Everything else in between is the rest of the book, which the author fills in with the slow stumbling of Robert. The photos serve as a medium through which the message of the desensitisation of Robert's "wars" can be heard. ...
