Compare And Contrast Dear America Letters Home

Imagine facing the horrors of a war at the young age of 19. In the real world as well as fictional novels, the Vietnam War was considered to be a war unlike any other. Many soldiers faced untold brutal challenges, and often wondered who the enemy really was. In many depicted pieces of literature such as Fallen Angels the fictional stories cannot begin to compare to the real traumatic ones. Research has shown that the traumatic circumstances have caused soldiers mental stress. Research shows the brutality that the soldiers of the Vietnam War went through, the novel Fallen Angels and the video series “Dear America: Letters Home” are very similar in this depiction, but also have slight differences.
Fallen Angels and "Dear America: Letters Home" both focus on the Vietnam war and giving us a look into the lives of a soldiers. Fallen Angels is a novel that gives readers insight into a soldiers mind. Throughout the whole book, the reader gets to know a soldier known as Richie Perry. We get to know what he is thinking and how he feels about the war, and we get to see the effects of war on a soldier. "Dear America: Letters Home" is a movie about the letters that soldiers wrote home. The letters are primary sources, so we can see exactly what the soldiers were feeling or thinking about.
Fallen Angels is a very realistic
War has ling lasting effects on the soldiers that can be very damaging to their young and innocent minds. Though the novel Fallen Angels is a very realistic work of fiction, it is still a work of fiction, and some things in the book could not even compare to the real tragedies of war. The movie "Dear America: Letters Home" is very similar in its portrayal of wat, but there are also some small