Essay On Sunrise Over Fallujah

The Iraq war fiercely changed life in Iraq and in its neighboring countries. The war started in March 2003. The united states joined the war because of 9/11: an attack of mass destruction in New York city by a terrorist group named Al-Qaeda, which killed almost Three thousand people. The united states getting involved in the war; made it worse, and withdraw from the war on December 2011. During the war, life was difficult to survive emotionally for the soldiers, especially for those who are new. The historical fiction book Sunrise over Fallujah, by Walter Dean Myers, is set in Iraq. Robin "Birdy" Perry, a recruit from Harlem, NY, showed that war needs emotional readiness. Throughout Sunrise over Fallujah, the author uses

Birdy, who is a new soldier, fears that he will end up dead during the war. He said,“Then I realized that it was the noise, the constant booming, that just filled my guts with a trembling sensation. I knew if I heard the boom I was safe because whatever had exploded hadn't hit me. But it was the idea that at any moment it could be all over, that I could be dead or lie in the sand twisting in agony, that filled me with a terror that I hadn't known before. Terror. It wasn't just being scared. It was a feeling that was taking me over. I knew it but I hoped no one else saw it,” (Myers 71). This description of Birdy's fear develops the idea that in Iraq, surviving emotionally during the war is important to be alive. Walter Dean Myers wants the reader

Birdy leaves to Germany and understands why his uncle does not talk about the war. Birdy wrote to his uncle, “Uncle Richie, I used to be mad at you when you wouldn’t talk about Vietnam. I thought you were being selfish, in a way. Now I understand how light the word seem,” (281). Birdy now has the courage to understand what being in a war feels like, and why his uncle won’t tell him about war. The author uses the word “light” to emphasize Birdy’s understanding of war, in a way to tell that war is not described by words. He feels that he has learned a lot from this war, yet part of him is