Blood ... Terror ...and Insanity are 3 words you can use to explain Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers. It recalls the Vietnam War through the eyes of Richard Perry‚ an African-American soldier. Perry goes through a lot of changes and sees some of his good friends die in battle fighting for a cause that no one could agree upon. The book has 4 other main characters‚ Lobel‚ Johnson‚ Brunner‚ and Peewee. Myers’ Fallen Angels takes a dive into the harsh reality of modern war. The realistic depictions
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“We’re all dead and just hoping that we come back to life when we get into the world again.” The book “Fallen Angels” by Walter Dean Myers is the tale of a young man named Richard Perry to Vietnam. Perry is just a young man and so are many of his fellow soldiers. Throughout the story they all face many of the same feelings. Feelings of fear‚ comradeship‚ and losing a close friend. All of the men face the overwhelming fear of war. Many times throughout the book they come face to face with death
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Kristin Strickland History 370 Book Essay March 21‚ 2013 Letters from Vietnam I found that trying to find a book to read about the Vietnam War was rather difficult because there are so many of them out there. I chose Letters from Vietnam edited by Bill Adler because it was a point of view from many soldiers in the war and they were what they were truly feeling at the time. It is not one point of view when you read this many letters and a little background on each of the authors‚ but there are
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Fallen Angels Essay Cassidey Shafer Period 4 In the book‚ Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers‚ the main character‚ Perry‚ changes a lot. His views on life and war change quite drastically and he begins to question the war and if there is any straightforward morality in the fighting. In the beginning of the book‚ Perry isn’t too worried about the war and thinks that he won’t engage in the conflict there due to a knee injury‚ but by the end of the book‚ he is considering going AWOL just to get away
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The novel‚ "Fallen Angels"‚ was written by Walter Dean Myers in 1988 in Jersey City‚ New Jersey. The writing is of a war fiction genre and also a coming-of-age story. The tale is told in a first person point of view through a fairly young African-American soldier fighting in the controversial Vietnam War. The story takes place in 1967 to 1968. The novel begins in 1967 with Richie Perry; a seventeen year old‚ black‚ high-school graduate joining the army. He decides to join the army because his mother
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Jenkins steps on a land mine and is killed. Later Richie says "Seeing him lying there like that‚ his mouth and eyes open‚ had grabbed something inside my chest and twisted it hard." Him saying this shows that he is sympathetic about others. In "Fallen Angels"‚ I believe that there is one character that really makes the story more interesting and he is Harold Gates also known as Peewee. One can say that Peewee is flippant and humorous at the same time. For example‚ he keeps thinking that all the Vietnamese
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The ’Fallen Woman’ A Familiar Feature of Victorian Writing Victorian social conventions placed the female inside the male domain‚ a domestically cultivated flower rather than a wild one‚ uncontrollable and free to roam. Woman was idealised: the angel in the house‚ the wife complementing her husband‚ the helpmate of man. Social conditions offered the Victorian woman little in occupation so her aim in life was to secure a husband‚ succumbing to the political propaganda. As Foster states: Because
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Final Essay Pd.4 War can change a person’s perspective and gain one’s maturity. Not only let a person to be more considerate for others‚ but also increase a person’s courage. Throughout the Fallen Angels‚ the war changes the soldiers a lot. For example‚ the innocent young soldiers enter the war‚ it quickly changes them and forces them to develop into men. The relationship between the squad members have also changed and make their friendship even more strongly bonded. In addition‚ Perry’s point
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Dear Mom and Dad‚ Hey! I miss you all so much. Every day I think about you guys and the rest of the family! I’m sorry that I haven’t written to you all in a long time! A lot has been going in the past few weeks. The war out here in Vietnam is mostly what I expected. Our enemy‚ the Viet Cong‚ wants to spread communism throughout South Vietnam. In order to do so‚ they need to beat us. The Viet Cong knew that they had to engage in guerrilla warfare‚ which is a style of fighting that relies on the element
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