Task: You will write a research paper of no less than five (5) pages in length and no more than seven (7) pages in length. Your paper must be typed, double spaced, and the font must be Times New Roman size 12. Additionally, your paper must include no less than 10 sources.
The Yellow Birds, All My Sons, and The Things They Carried count as sources (as long as you refer to them in your essay).
The topic of the paper is your choice, as long as it has something to do with the novel The Yellow Birds, by Kevin Powers. You might consider one of the following topics:
• Compare/Contrast Yellow Birds to All My Sons and The Things They Carried
• The effect that war has on soldier’s mentality
• What it means to be a ‘good soldier’ (Who do you think is the best soldier in the book? Is that a good thing or a bad thing?)
• What it means to be a man (Is Bartle a man? Sterling? Murph?)
• The role of guilt in times of war
• Choose a character and analyze him
• Theme(s) of the novel