Sunrise Over Fallujah is a story written by Walter Dean Myers and it tells the journey of a recent high school graduate,Robin,towards the career pathway of being a soldier. After enlisting Robin was sent to Iraq and joined his unit which is where he met his best friend Jonesy, a blues singer from Georgia. Robin and Jonesy along with their company went on multiple missions to help Iraqi’s and maintain a relationship with the people of the communities they’re going into. On the last mission the pair had together they had been ambushed and heavy firepower was coming in. While they were getting shot at the children the company had went there to get were still getting in the HumVee’s and were rushed inside the trucks. One of the children was a blind boy who couldn’t find his way to the HumVee’s and was rescued by Jonesy who was shot and died later during the trip back to camp. This choice affected Jonesy’s future …show more content…
While in Tiburon Lily and a teenage boy named Zach helped to assist August,the beekeeper, with her honey business. On the day Lily got the courage to tell August why she actually came to Tiburon, Zach asked Lily to go into town. In town an incident with some colored boys and a few white men. The interaction ended in all the colored boys going to jail because no one would confess who hit a white man with a coke bottle.Everyone in the house knew that Zach had been in jail except for August’s sister, May.May was a bit unstable before hearing Zach was incarcerated but after receiving the news she just couldn’t handle it. The night May found out about Zach she went down to the river in the woods and put a huge rock on her chest and left a note for May and her other sister June explaining why she killed herself. May killing herself was the result of