![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Yellow Birds: A Novel [Kevin Powers] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is. The Yellow Birds: A Novel [Kevin Powers] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is. Contents • • • • • • Background [ ] Much of the novel draws upon Powers's experience serving a year as a machine gunner in and,, from February 2004 to March 2005 after enlisting in the at the age of 17. After his honorable discharge, Powers enrolled in, where he graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor's degree in English. He holds an MFA from the, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry. Powers has said that the novel took him about four years to write. He also comes from a military family as 'his father and grandfathers both served, and his uncle was a Marine.' With regard to the autobiographical elements of the novel, Powers says: 'The core of what Bartle goes through, I empathised with it. I felt those things, and asked the same questions: is there anything about this that's redeeming; does asking in itself have value? The story is invented, but there's a definite alignment between his emotional and mental life and mine.' Plot [ ] The Yellow Birds begins: 'The war tried to kill us in the spring' and follows Pvt. John Bartle, the novel's protagonist and narrator, in Al Tafar, Iraq;,;,; the author's and narrator's hometown of; and, spanning from December 2003 to April 2009. Much of the novel focuses on Bartle's promise to the mother of Murph, a fellow Private, not to let him die in the war. Bartle and Murph also make a pact not to be the 1,000th casualty in the war. The reader learns in the beginning of the novel, however, that Murph dies in the war. The Yellow Birds also examines the reactions of soldiers after their deployments. Bartle enters a state in which he does not want to leave his house upon his return from the war and slowly deteriorates as the novel progresses.
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