“Pow, Pow, Pop, Pop, Bang, Bang” the sounds of guns on TV always bring excitement and action to us as we watch a movie about a great war, not worrying if it will ever happen to us . In the book Forbidden City by William Bell, it has that same excitement of war (well not for Alex who was caught in all the “action” of the war). In Bell’s book it’s about a war in Beijing (the students vs. the army) bringing the feeling of war and betrayal in this story. For this book the theme that best described it is war. It might be hard to understand how, but I got three quotes to prove that it’s true. First, the quote “I ran, crying and cursing the murderers in uniform who were still murdering (Bell, page 269)”. The quote takes place when Alex is back
