Trapped in a world that isn't your own. War does that, giving its subjects a new place for self-evaluation, and another home from home. In Sunrise Over Fallujah, a young man, Robin Perry, and his squad learn the true face of war and what it brings to the habitats it consumes. Walter Myers, the author this book, paints a picture through his characters giving them the realization that their environment is not like they're inexperienced minds had once perceived. Their world is in comparison to home, contrast to the fiction of the movies and altering perception of their beliefs.
Comparing Iraq to America Robin observes it's, “A beautiful city with wide, clean streets and modern cars zipping down the highways. The sky is low and huge and so blue it's almost purple.”(pg.8), America just with different people. Myers used Robin's, an American’s, point of view to show ironic nostalgia of this different, assumably other-world, country. Robin notes, “There is a feeling of peace about the place most of the time,” (pg.8) to be so war stricken. …show more content…
“It all looked so much better in the training films, when the figures were just silhouettes flickering across a screen.” (pg.70) Robin says to himself. The realization that the battlefield, that war, wasn't as glorious or entertaining as the movies of it back home, and that they had seen now “the smell of blood was connected with real people.”(pg.70). Made them long for the days, “When it was all just a video game.” (pg.70). Showing the reader that this war; this field environment on which they stood, had the realistic effect of changing their euphoric eagerness to join in such an event as