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Internal and External Conflicts of Walter Burke Anthony Groom’s novel Bombingham is about a middle-class black family riven by its personal chaos. The title of the book derives from the name that African Americans gave to Birmingham in the 1950s and 60s in response to the violent bombings in their community. When the narrator, Walter Burke, is writing a letter to the parents of his friend who died in the Vietnam War, he is taken back to his childhood during the Civil Right Movement. The majority of the novel occurs in flashback, focusing on the time when Walter was young. The narrator is struggling for everything throughout the novel. He faces so many difficulties and conflicts. The sickness of his mother is one of the big external conflicts. Meanwhile, the involvement in the demonstrations for the Civil Rights Movement produces another conflict to Walter. The narrator struggles to find the meaning of his role in both the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement. The sickness of Walter’s mother is a big external conflict. Walter is an ele