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The German Bartender
Bartle’s platoon’s translator, Malik, is highly skilled in English but demonstrates a lack of knowledge about military safety that ultimately gets him killed. Malik also highlights the emotional and cultural impact of war on local inhabitants’ lives, as he recalls with nostalgia the peaceful atmosphere of his neighborhood before the war.
Malik Quotes in The Yellow Birds
The The Yellow Birds quotes below are all either spoken by Malik or refer to Malik. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Nothing seemed more natural than someone getting killed. […] I needed to continue. And to continue, I had to see the world with clear eyes, to focus on the essential. We only pay attention to rare things, and death was not rare.
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I’d been trained to think war was the great unifier, that it brought people closer together than any other activity on earth. Bullshit. War is the great maker of solipsists: how are you going to save my life today? Dying would be one way. If you die, it becomes more likely that I will not.
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Malik Quotes in The Yellow Birds
The The Yellow Birds quotes below are all either spoken by Malik or refer to Malik. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 1
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Nothing seemed more natural than someone getting killed. […] I needed to continue. And to continue, I had to see the world with clear eyes, to focus on the essential. We only pay attention to rare things, and death was not rare.
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I’d been trained to think war was the great unifier, that it brought people closer together than any other activity on earth. Bullshit. War is the great maker of solipsists: how are you going to save my life today? Dying would be one way. If you die, it becomes more likely that I will not.
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