REAL QUICK!

By using a first-person narrator, Walter Dean Myers ensures that readers will experience Sunrise Over Fallujah only through what Robin is able to see, hear, think, and observe. How might the story’s point of view be different if a different character, Jonesy for example, was the first-person narrator who told the story? How might the tone of the story be different? Using details from the text, write an essay explaining how the excerpt would be different if told from Jonesy’s point of view. What might Jonesy notice that would be different from what Robin observes? What would Jonesy’s attitude be toward life in the camp? Would he share Robin’s excitement or have other feelings? What would Jonesy have to say about Robin himself? Would his point of view on Robin be favorable? Use what you have learned about tone to establish a formal tone in your essay, and maintain it. Use textual evidence to support your ideas.

Julius caesar. [brutus.] with this, she fell distraught, and, her attendants absent, swallowed fire. cassius. and died so? brutus. even so. cassius. o ye immortal gods! [enter lucius, with wine and taper] brutus. speak no more of her. give me a bowl of wine. in this i bury all unkindness, cassius. cassius. my heart is thirsty for that noble pledge. fill, lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup; i cannot drink too much of brutus' love. [exit lucius. enter titinius, with messala] brutus. come in, titinius; welcome, good messala. now sit we close about this taper here, and call in question our necessities. cassius. portia, art thou gone? brutus. no more, i pray you. what moral dilemma does brutus confront in this excerpt? brutus lets go of his anger toward cassius and forgives him. brutus decides that he will not mourn portia and will stay loyal to cassius. brutus decides that he is too angry at cassius to remain friends with him. brutus questions whether cassius's life should be ended.