What does Faulks shows about war through his presentation about the death of Weir?

 Likewise the fact that Sebastian  Faulks uses horrible adjectives to describe Weir death without any emotions; shows that Stephen didn’t really care about his death as he knew he was going to die at some point ‘ Weir’s terror under The guns has been a conductor for his own fear’ this makes the reader feel sorry for Weir as Faulks describes him as a lovable character and ‘innocent’ as he never had a girlfriend and he was so young. Faulks emphasize this by making him one of the officials and before his death he walked past the parapet and ‘Sniper’s bullet entered his head’ this shows that even though he was one of the officials he didn’t notice that the ‘parapet had not been replaced’ and didn’t have the chance to save his life.

Faulks uses the comparison with Jackto show that officials and tunnelers, are all at the same level and officials shouldn’t be looked as ‘superior’. Faulks uses Stephen to generalise the thoughts and feelings that most soldiers at that time must have felt about the war ‘ He hated the selfishness of his feeling, because he felt more sorry for himself than for his dead friend,’ this makes the reader feel angry with Stephen as Faulks makes the reader get attached to Weir and like him more than Stephen  as he is described as a ‘cold and mysterious person’. This might have shown the devastation  of how people might have felt when you lose someone you care about.  Faulks uses simile ‘like a puppet’ to describe Weir death as if he was an animal to give vivid sick imagery to the reader.