Vimy

Character Analysis

Character

Motivation to
join war
- help the
soldiers

Physical
Ailment
None

Sid

- Didnt want to
work in the
tunnels anymore

Mike
(native)

- Brother Bert
encouraged him
to become
warriors together

- TB**
-Loss of
vision
-Head
injuries
- death from
TB
- Gas attack

Clare

(Social
Ailment
racial
profiled)

Mental Ailment
- Visions of Laurie

- Nightmares
- Flashbacks

- envisions his
brother
- Nightmares

Emotional
Ailment
- Heartbroken;
loss of loved
one
- guilt
- suffers with
the soldiers
she is
trying to
heal
- desires
relationships

- guilt;
brothers death
& doesnt
deserve award

Will

- Dad &
- Shrapnel to
Grandfather were
the arm &
also in war
upperbody
fulfill
expectations of
him
Jean-Paul - Wanted to be
None
something other
than a butcher

Laurie

- to be close to
Clare

Bert
(native)

- become a
Warrior with
brother Mike

Claude

- Joined with JP

- Nightmares

-Shellshock (smelly
hands)
- Visions of Claude

- Homesick
(wants to be in
canoe)
- Pressure from
dad/grandfather

- guilt for killing

Claude
- Homesick but
doesnt know
how to adapt
when he goes
back
- Shot in
- war turned him into - love killed him
face (saving a man
-became
Sid)
emotionless/apathetic emotionless
- Death
- 3 gas
None (other than
None
attacks
too focused on
- Death from becoming warrior)
TB
- Shot for
- mentally weak;
- scared &
cowardice
unable to adapt to
emotional about
possibly by
war
war; wanted to
JP
go home.
- Death
- wasnt being
treated fairly
because he was
French so

wanted to go
home.