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Monty Miles Raymond
A former classmate of Robert Ross at St. Andrews boarding school, who also becomes a soldier and trains with Robert in Lethbridge, Alberta, as part of a detail that breaks wild mustangs to use as military horses. He accompanies Robert on a mission to find two horses that have gone missing, where they inadvertently meet Captain Taffler. Clifford is naïve and immature but takes the war seriously, believing that it is his opportunity to become a man. Near the end of the novel, Robert happens upon Clifford’s dead body lying in the middle of a road near Wytsbrouk.
Clifford Purchas Quotes in The Wars
The The Wars quotes below are all either spoken by Clifford Purchas or refer to Clifford Purchas. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 1, Chapter 21
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Oddly, too, he didn’t feel like sending love to anyone. It seemed unmanly. What he did do was enclose a photograph (official) and say to his father: “This will show you that my draft makes a brawling, husky lot of men. Not quite gunners or drivers yet—just as I can’t quite feel that I am a soldier myself.”
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Part 1, Chapter 23
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Ord said hoarsely that since he was going to do a boy’s work he must read the “stuff of which boys are made” and smiled. Clifford didn’t appreciate the humor. To him, the war was a deadly serious and heaven-sent choice to become a man.
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Clifford Purchas Quotes in The Wars
The The Wars quotes below are all either spoken by Clifford Purchas or refer to Clifford Purchas. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 1, Chapter 21
Quotes
Oddly, too, he didn’t feel like sending love to anyone. It seemed unmanly. What he did do was enclose a photograph (official) and say to his father: “This will show you that my draft makes a brawling, husky lot of men. Not quite gunners or drivers yet—just as I can’t quite feel that I am a soldier myself.”
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Part 1, Chapter 23
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Ord said hoarsely that since he was going to do a boy’s work he must read the “stuff of which boys are made” and smiled. Clifford didn’t appreciate the humor. To him, the war was a deadly serious and heaven-sent choice to become a man.
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