"The Hurt Locker" is a poem written by Sergent Brian Turner. It's hard for me to pick a quote, because altogether, the poem works as a great quote. However, I will choose the quote, "Believe it when you see it. Believe it when a 12-year-old rolls a grenade into the room." Brian Turner's poem is all about the hurt and pain that soldier's go through during their time in a country fighting for their lives. For most people, these situations would be impossible to believe, and that is exactly what Brian is trying to explain in his poem. "The Hurt Locker" is a poem filled with unbelievable and unimaginable real-life situations that are seen every day by both men and woman fighting. At the end of the poem, Brian closes the poem with a single and very strong-worded sentence. " Open the hurt locker and learn how rough men come hunting for souls." In my point of view, I see this as a way for Brian to show how innocent and frightened men who come into the war are. Unfortunately, as the war moves on, these men learn how they really need to act and they become mentally prepared for what's ahead of them. In the course of the war, men become rowdy and reckless, all to hunt for others' souls.
This poem connects to Fallen Angels because the poem talks about the pain, the hurt, and the unimaginable. In Fallen Angels, Perry and his squad are clearly affected by the war. Examples are when they are wounded, when friends die, and overall, being in the war zone and being surrounded by shots and explosions. Also, "The Hurt Locker" mentions a 12-year-old rolling a grenade into a room. This connects to Fallen Angels because there a baby in the book, handed to someone innocent, and the baby's body was used as a bomb. The 12-year-old also connects to our unit because we talked about how kids were used as bait and told to stand in the road. A car driving down the road would either have to stop and be shot at or hit the kid. Unfortunately, the kid had no choice because they were most likely threatened to do what they were told.
My reaction to the poem is that war situations really are unimaginable. The war and these occurrences are not something I like to think about, but when I read things like this, I cannot imagine having to go through these times.
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I have to agree with that statement. They don't have time to think about whether something is or isn't real. All they have time for is to believe what they see.
Although it is true and very realistic, I myself would hate being in a situation where I didn't want to believe what was happening, but I knew I had to...
I agree and believe most others would also agree.
Andrea, I think your quote is a great example possibly of what the soldiers in war are thinking. It is so real, especially in the second sentence. I agree with your reaction to the poem. They are so mind blowing and I too try to avoid thinking about what these soldiers go through because it is so depressing. I also think that I don't think about it too much because I don't have any direct connections to the war so it sounds bad, but I think that's another reason it doesn't really register in my mind.
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