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Walter Dean Myers had a younger brother that died in the Vietnam War, which helped form his novel Fallen Angels. He also had a father in World War II, and a son in the Iraq war. Walter Dean Myers’s perception of war influenced his writing of the book. He wrote the book mainly because he disliked war. He knew much about the terrors of war from his three family members that were soldiers in different wars across history. Knowing what war was really like made him want to talk about a story of a fictional character in the Iraq war, to help illustrate how war was bad. These all helped to shape his book Sunrise Over Fallujah. He knew more about war than most American citizens, because of all the family he had in wars. After the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq War started, he came back and wrote Sunrise Over Fallujah. His reason to writing this book was mainly to inform the readers, mostly of which could be facing the decision of whether to go into the war or not, about what war was really like. He stated in an interview “I wanted to bring the war back into American consciousness, not in a political sense, but in the very difficult physical sense. I wanted young people who would be fighting this war, and who would, in the future, be making the hard decisions about our country engaging in wars, to be conscious of what war is really

Imagery is identified in “Sunrise Over Fallujah” to emphasize the dark tone throughout the book. “I seen a 240 take a guy’s leg off from a 100 yards...The whole leg came off and the sucker was just laying there on the ground, looking at his leg as he died” states a big-headed corporal (chapter 2 pg 37-38). His statement describes a gruesome scene of someone dying. This allows the audience to envision what it would be like to fight in Iraq/Afghanistan and puts them in the perspective of a soldier's shoes, part of unit that is most hated.

This quote in the first chapter of the book sets the overall tone. The author Tim O’Brien uses his language through out the book in an extremely straightforward manner. He does not sugar coat the way going to war and being in a war is. He does not use stories of heroes,

The novel Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers is a historical fiction novel that retells the memories of Robin Perry’s experience in Iraqi civil war. He was in a civil affairs unit, which is dedicated to protecting by standers in the war. Robin encounters various setbacks that try to slow down the progress of his unit such as the death of his close friend Jonsey. Walter Dean Myers portrayed his knowledge of the setting, aspects from the past, and made the plot very believable in the historical fiction novel Sunrise Over Fallujah.

In the incredible book, All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque, the reader follows Paul Baumer, a young man who enlisted in the war. The reader goes on a journey and watches Paul and his comrades face the sheer brutality of war. In this novel, the author tries to convey the fact that war should not be glorified. Through bombardment, gunfire, and the gruesome images painted by the author, one can really understand what it would have been like to serve on the front lines in the Great War. The sheer brutality of the war can be portrayed through literary devices such as personification, similes, and metaphors.

Dean Hughes: “War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war.” War is a great wicked that comes down upon the lives of the soldiers. We all look at the war in general and miss to see who is destroying their lives for the cause. War powers destruction and great evil and when these young and clueless men come into it they miss to see the big picture. In the book, All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque provides an inside look to show exactly what a toll the war puts on the warriors. Throughout the whole novel the author puts into extreme detail the physical and mental agony on the soldiers and land. Remarque gives an inside look to what the soldiers are

I would defiantly recommend this book to anyone who wants to read a realistic account of the Marines who fought in the final stages of the Vietnam War. This book is extremely powerful to anyone who knows someone who fought in Vietnam. My uncle was a Corporal who fought in Vietnam so it defiantly hit home for me. James Webb did an amazing job of capturing just how violent and different this conflict was, and makes it personal with his development of the books two protagonist. It is obvious that the events described in this book were directly influenced by Webb 's personal experience as a combat veteran and Marine officer in the Vietnam War. Webb 's credibility is unquestionable due to his experiences and level of realism. This book is a must read if you know any USMC Vietnam veterans, or just want to know more about the Vietnam war. I highly recommend this

During war, many people change physically, mentally, and socially. War itself is disturbing to the mind. In Walter Dean Meyer’s Fallen Angels, the characters undergo many changes as they learn the true meaning of war. Perry, Peewee and Johnson all change in the sense of their personalities and their outlooks on life. In the beginning of the novel all the characters have very distinct characteristics. As the story progresses they start to see how war can have a huge impact on your life.

20) O’Brien tells how these young men were drafted which were constantly in fear, they wished to be there obliviously but war takes up all of one’s attention; it played a big role in their life, changing their tactics, personality and becoming a new person. O’Brien uses this to show the stressful moments in war where one has pressure to be alive and in this case to fit in with everyone else and feel part of something, in a lonely place such as the war.

The horrors of war were depicted by the constant threats to the characters lives, the brutal conditions of the bad weather, hunger and combat. Soldiers had to battle the enemy along with nature. Soldiers would become stressed, paranoid and start losing their personalities. As Captain Miller says, “I just know that every man I kill, the farther away from home I feel.” This quote shows the mental toll on these soldiers.

was not the truth. This book showed the harsh reality of war that most people

James Webb focuses on three main characters in his novel: Robert E. Lee Hodges, “Snake,” and Will “Senator” Goodrich. The inspiration for these three characters seems to be not the life of any particular historical figure, but rather the common backgrounds of real soldiers who served in Vietnam in general. Characters in the novel are most often developed only after their initial introduction into the story. After introducing a character to the reader, Webb will often follow this introduction with the story of the characters life before the military and how or why he decided to enlist. Those characteristics not mentioned at his introduction or those that change are typically revealed during or after intense, traumatic events, such as near-death experiences or witnessing the death of a friend. Although the novel centers on only three characters, these three characters represent highly prominent reasons that American’s had for enlisting; to continue a family legacy and protect his family’s honor, to escape the steep decline and unhappiness of his life, and by accident or unwillingly being drafted.

In this essay, I will discuss how Tim O’Brien’s works “The Things They Carried” and “If I Die in a Combat Zone” reveal the individual human stories that are lost in war. In “The Things They Carried” O’Brien reveals the war stories of Alpha Company and shows how human each soldier is. In “If I Die in a Combat Zone” O’Brien tells his story with clarity, little of the dreamlike quality of “Things They Carried” is in this earlier work, which uses more blunt language that doesn’t hold back. In “If I Die” O’Brien reveals his own personal journey through war and what he experienced. O’Brien’s works prove a point that men, humans fight wars, not ideas. Phil Klay’s novel “Redeployment” is another novel that attempts to humanize soldiers in war. “Redeployment” is an anthology series, each chapter attempts to let us in the head of a new character – set in Afghanistan or in the United States – that is struggling with the current troubles of war. With the help of Phil Klay’s novel I will show how O’Brien’s works illustrate and highlight each story that make a war.

“Tomorrow When The War Began” by John Marsden, is a novel of survival, friendship, love and war. He uses many language techniques (e.g. simile, metaphor, personification, oxymoron, irony, symbol, allusion etc.) to get across to the reader the importance of each of the themes discussed. He also uses these techniques to set the mood in each chapter and to help emphasise each major point in the novel. “We’ve learnt a lot and had to figure out what’s important- what matters, what really matters.”- Ellie

The story “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien is an enormously detailed fictional account of a wartime scenario in which jimmy Cross (the story’s main character) grows as a person, and the emotional and physical baggage of wartime are brought to light. The most obvious and prominent feature of O’Brien’s writing is a repetition of detail. O’brien also passively analyzes the effects of wartime on the underdeveloped psyche by giving the reader close up insight into common tribulations of war, but not in a necessarily expositorial sense.. He takes us into the minds of mere kids as they cope with the unbelievable and under-talked-about effects or rationalizing