War is an overpowering presence that takes total control over the lives of those fighting in it, and leaves them helpless. Private John Bartle, a character in the novel The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers, struggles with his inability to control the events in his life as he is stationed in Al Tafar, Iraq, during the Iraq War. His thoughts and actions throughout the novel demonstrate that the war not only affected his life while in Iraq, but it also controlled many aspects of his life once he returned home. While in Iraq, Private Bartle experienced a lack of control over every aspect of his life. He believed that no matter his actions or thoughts, the war would continue to wreak havoc over everything involved in it. For example, Bartle explains, "The war would take what it could get. It was patient. It didn't care about objectives or boundaries, whether you were loved by many or not at all the war came to me in my dreams and showed me its sole purpose to go on, only to go on"" (Powers 4). Bartle comes to realize very early on in the war that while he is there, he is powerless. No matter what happens to them, the war will continue, and no matter what he does the war will continue. One of these uncontrollable instances occurs each time he is caught in a mortar attack. He is forced to take cover and hope for the best, knowing that if a mortar lands close, he is surely dead. In many instances he explains this feeling as "I felt for a moment like I was falling " (Powers 168). He is falling, and there is nothing he can do to save himself. In addition to having no control over the events that occur to him, he is also left helpless as he changes.
As a result of having no control over the events that occur to him, Bartle also does not have control over how he changes as a person. The brutal events that he and his fellow soldiers were forced to live through shaped them in ways they did not like.
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