Plot+and+Conflict


 * The overall plot of “Sunrise Over Fallujah” is that no matter what happens in war you have to keep on keeping on. Just like Jonesy put it, “As long as it is not your body lying in the road, you just keep on keeping on. The whole theory of war is nothing simpler than old men make the decisions and young men die as a result. What war runs on is fear and anger. When someone you know has their life taken from them, you want revenge on their death. This book is a true story about the terrible outcomes that a war can leave on a country, except for the overall victory. The main two conflicts are man vs. man, and man vs. self. The man vs. man is the war its self and the people involved in it. However the man vs. self if facing the fear of terror of being a POW or a KIA, this is when you must keep on keeping on.**

**The main external conflict is that the Civilian Affairs units have to get the majority of the population to trust them. This wouldn’t be so difficult if a small percentage weren’t terrorists and tried to kill them and sometimes succeeded. Terrorists inIraq are unlike any others any place else. They will take any chance they get to kill you. Birdy and his squad find out the hard way many times with different encounters with IEDs (Improvised Explosive Device). IEDs are operated by cell phones and instead of ringing when called they detonate a bomb. Most of the bombs that go off are enemy IEDs throughBaghdad, the capitol ofIraq.**

**The second external conflict is staying intact with the rest of your squad. In one part, a small squad is taken as prisoners and are beaten. Once you lose contact with your unit you are most likely not going to survive in the vast unknown alone. Most of the book is about the cruelty that war can and will cause. War is a terrible thing, and yet all countries get involved in one at some point in time. If the world was at peace there would be no point in having guns or any other item that could cause harm.**