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conversations.value: a plot for a book about Bartle, Yellow, Birds entitled The Yellow Birds
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conversations.value: The Yellow Birds (film): Two young soldiers, Bartle (21) and Murph (18) navigate the terrors of the Iraq war under the command of the older, troubled Sergeant Sterling.\nAll the while, Bartle is tortured by a promise he made to Murph's mother before their deployment.
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conversations.value: a plot for a book about Murph, Yellow, Birds entitled The Yellow Birds
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conversations.value: The Yellow Birds: The Yellow Birds begins: "The war tried to kill us in the spring" and follows Pvt.\nJohn Bartle, the novel\'s protagonist and narrator, in Al Tafar, Iraq; Fort Dix, New Jersey; Kaiserslautern, Germany; the author\'s and narrator\'s hometown of Richmond, Virginia; and Fort Knox, Kentucky spanning from December 2003 to April 2009.\nMuch of the novel focuses on Bartle\'s promise to the mother of Murph, a fellow Private, not to let him die in the war.\nBartle and Murph also make a pact not to be the 1,000th casualty in the war.\nThe reader learns in the beginning of the novel, however, that Murph dies in the war.\nThe Yellow Birds also examines the reactions of soldiers after their deployments.\nBartle 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.\nPowers has stated: "I wanted to show the whole picture.\nIt\'s not just: you get off the plane, you\'re back home, everything\'s fine.\nMaybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at risk of being injured in a different way.\nI thought it was important to acknowledge that".\nThe title of the novel alludes to a story Murph tells Bartle while on a guard tower about when Murph\'s "father brought a dozen caged canaries home from the mine and let them loose in the hollow where they lived, how the canaries only flitted and sang awhile before perching back atop their cages, which had been arranged in rows, his father likely thinking that the birds would not return by choice to their captivity, and that the cages should be used for something else: a pretty bed for vegetables, perhaps a place to string up candles between the trees, and in what strange silences the world worked, Murph must have wondered, as the birds settled peaceably in their formation and ceased to sing".
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conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
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conversations.value: \nThe title of the novel alludes to a story Murph tells Bartle while on a guard tower about when Murph\'s "father brought a dozen caged canaries home from the mine and let them loose in the hollow where they lived, how the canaries only flitted and sang awhile before perching back atop their cages, which had been arranged in rows, his father likely thinking that the birds would not return by choice to their captivity, and that the cages should be used for something else: a pretty bed for vegetables, perhaps a place to string up candles between the trees, and in what strange silences the world worked, Murph must have wondered, as the birds settled peaceably in their formation and ceased to sing".\nJohn Bartle, the novel\'s protagonist and narrator, in Al Tafar, Iraq; Fort Dix, New Jersey; Kaiserslautern, Germany; the author\'s and narrator\'s hometown of Richmond, Virginia; and Fort Knox, Kentucky spanning from December 2003 to April 2009.\nMuch of the novel focuses on Bartle\'s promise to the mother of Murph, a fellow Private, not to let him die in the war.\nBartle and Murph also make a pact not to be the 1,000th casualty in the war.\nThe reader learns in the beginning of the novel, however, that Murph dies in the war.\nThe Yellow Birds also examines the reactions of soldiers after their deployments.\nBartle 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.\nPowers has stated: "I wanted to show the whole picture.\nIt\'s not just: you get off the plane, you\'re back home, everything\'s fine.\nMaybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at risk of being injured in a different way.\nI thought it was important to acknowledge that".The Yellow Birds: The Yellow Birds begins: "The war tried to kill us in the spring" and follows Pvt.