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Book Summary: Fallen Angels By Walter Dean Myers
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 from the fighting.
Perry changes due to the new setting in Vietnam and the fighting that is happening there. In the beginning of the book, Perry isn’t too worried about the war but when Jenkins, one of the other recruits, steps on a landmine and
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