Although initially reassured to note that Murph and Bartle are becoming friends, Murph’s mother also proves deeply worried about her son’s fate in Iraq and forces Bartle to promise that he will protect Murph’s life. After Murph’s death, she proves neither vengeful nor forgiving, still too overcome by grief to accept her son’s death in a peaceful way.
Ladonna Murphy (Murph’s Mother) Quotes in The Yellow Birds
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Chapter 9
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It probably wouldn’t matter what our level of culpability was. I was guilty of something, that much was certain, that much I could feel on a cellular level.
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Ladonna Murphy (Murph’s Mother) Quotes in The Yellow Birds
The The Yellow Birds quotes below are all either spoken by Ladonna Murphy (Murph’s Mother) or refer to Ladonna Murphy (Murph’s Mother). 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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Chapter 9
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It probably wouldn’t matter what our level of culpability was. I was guilty of something, that much was certain, that much I could feel on a cellular level.
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