Half of the battle of an overseas deployment is the deployment; the shooting, the IED’s and the constant state of awareness. The other half; the half not as evident, is transitioning home. Marines adopt a heightened sense of awareness for survival in a war zone. However, these adaptations cannot be forgotten once American troops return to home soil. Complications arise when Marines transition from an ever-evolving hostile environment back into a once familiarly known calm atmosphere. Problems occur with decision-making, anger control, and bonding with relationships again. American troops come home from a war zone and see nothing at home that reflects that Americans are dying in war. Novels about Operation Iraqi Freedom and the war on Iraq are
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Not by accident” (1; ch. 1). It is obvious from the very first sentence that censorship is thrown out the window, this theme stay throughout the chapter. The style awakens every sense of excitement. By doing this, author Phil Klay demands the civilian reader to enter the mind of a Marine. As for the marine reader, Phil Klay undoubtedly connects with the lifestyle. Phil Klay told Business Insider writer, David Brooks, in an interview “ I knew a marine who had talked about the experience of shooting dogs…I thought it would make sense of the difference between the things that you do overseas and what constitutes normal life for everybody back home” …show more content…
In the first chapter in the novel Redeployment, a Marine named Sergeant Price illustrates his emotions in the streets of Fallujah during his deployment, “In a city there is a million places they (terrorists) can kill you from. It freaks you out at first. But you go through like you were trained, and it works” (12). Sergeant Price then explains the same experience of going through a city, except now he is home, “You’re safe, your alertness should be at white, but it is not. Instead, you are stuck in an American Eagle Outfitters, your wife gives you stuff to try on and you walk into a tiny dressing room. You close the door, and you don’t want to open it again” (12). The out of place feeling does not stop in the dress room. Sergeant price noticed how casually people in the mall walked past windows. Price has witnessed men casually walk past windows in Fallujah; those men did not live to tell the story to their families back
Not by accident” (1; ch. 1). It is obvious from the very first sentence that censorship is thrown out the window, this theme stay throughout the chapter. The style awakens every sense of excitement. By doing this, author Phil Klay demands the civilian reader to enter the mind of a Marine. As for the marine reader, Phil Klay undoubtedly connects with the lifestyle. Phil Klay told Business Insider writer, David Brooks, in an interview “ I knew a marine who had talked about the experience of shooting dogs…I thought it would make sense of the difference between the things that you do overseas and what constitutes normal life for everybody back home” …show more content…
In the first chapter in the novel Redeployment, a Marine named Sergeant Price illustrates his emotions in the streets of Fallujah during his deployment, “In a city there is a million places they (terrorists) can kill you from. It freaks you out at first. But you go through like you were trained, and it works” (12). Sergeant Price then explains the same experience of going through a city, except now he is home, “You’re safe, your alertness should be at white, but it is not. Instead, you are stuck in an American Eagle Outfitters, your wife gives you stuff to try on and you walk into a tiny dressing room. You close the door, and you don’t want to open it again” (12). The out of place feeling does not stop in the dress room. Sergeant price noticed how casually people in the mall walked past windows. Price has witnessed men casually walk past windows in Fallujah; those men did not live to tell the story to their families back