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A 9 page essay that examines the role of art in Urquhart's best-selling Canadian novel The Stone Carvers. The writer argues that art is what motivates personal experience and expression for the principal characters. Art is their refuge and, then finally, art provides a means to heal the awful trauma of war and loss. While this theme (or theory) of art is prevalent, Urquhart also uses the medium of her novel to present art as intrinsic to what it means to be human, a medium by which the human soul endeavors to achieve the transcendental.
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the principal characters. Art is their refuge and, then finally, art provides a means to heal the awful trauma of war and loss. While this theme (or theory) of art
is prevalent, Urquhart also uses the medium of her novel to present art as intrinsic to what it means to be human, a medium by which the human soul endeavors
to achieve the transcendental. The Stone Carvers is the story of multiple generations of the Becker family, as well as the story of Catholic priest, with the unlikely
name of Pater Archangel Gstir, who is posted to minister to a tiny community of German farmers in the backwoods of Upper Canada. The story begins, however, with a brief
mention of the historical figure of Walter Allward, the Toronto sculptor who planned and executed the Canadian War Memorial at Vimy Ridge in France, which honors Canadians who died in
World War I. Throughout the novel Urguart reveals her characterization principally through the manner in which each individual reacts to art. One of the first facts that the reader
learns about Father Gstir is his fascination with the inspirational nature of a steeple bell. While still stationed in Germany, he tries to persuade his superiors about the advantages of
"a perfect bell, with a perfect pitch" calling worshipers to mass (11). On arriving in Canada, Father Gstir simply changes the locations of his obsession and immediately begins sending letters
to Bavaria arguing that the honest German Catholics of Canada deserve a stone church and a proper bell. One of the first individuals that Father Gstir meets in the
community, which he names "Shoneval," is Joseph Becker, who is working as a miller, but who was called to the New World by his love of wood and his desire
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