John Steinbeck's 'Raising The Flag Of Our Fathers'

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Flag Of Our Fathers is about the six people that raised the flag on Iwo Jima. The son of one of the guys that raised the flag goes searching for the other guys to get answers about how it was and his dad’s secrets because his dad never went public about it and always kept it a secret. In the book, all six guys meet at a marines camp in Los Angeles training. The book talks about the war they went to and how the guys father had to see all the dead bodies and that the bodies were his friends. In the beginning of the book they talk a lot about the lives of the flag raisers and focus on the three remaining. In the movie, they do not. The movie jumps from the present and the past which confuses the movie. The book also focused on who really

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