Discussion on Yellow Birds

Personally, I don’t mind the book; I don’t particularly love it or hate it, more of a neutral feeling. 

In our book clubs, we spoke up some human rights issues in the book, like the violation of privacy and torture to women in the club with the soldiers. They were unable to protect themselves and were forced to do what the soldiers intended. There’s also some discrimination regarding that as well. You can view this happening in the book specifically on page 65, where they were getting thrown against the wall.

We also touched on how we felt that the book was repetitive. I strongly agreed with that topic of discussion, because that’s how I felt reading the book. I feel as if it’s just the narrator speaking about his war experiences and random events over and over again. It’s also a bit difficult to follow, through all the changing times and such. I feel like the moments specifically with Murph are repetitive, especially when they are talking about their lives back home.

I have not finished the book quite yet, but I hope the ending will be great!