Ever thought about being the only one left out of all the people around you? Having no one to go to and have no feeling of hope? Similarly, the WARS is about a soldier in war named Robert Ross, and so far he is the only survivor as he does not see anyone else around him in the prologue of the novel. That night 'The moon rose-red', the colour signifying the colour of blood that the soldiers shed on the war field. But it is a Soldiers duty to fight until his last breath, and that is what allows Robert Ross to keep hope within him. And that is when he sees the horse and the dog. In my opinion, the horse signifies the long race of life that Robert Ross still has to make and the bonding between the animals and humans.
