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Realistic Depiction Of War In Fallen Angels By Walter Dean Myers

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Fallen Angels Have you a reader ever wondered about the realistic depiction of war: how the war is romanticized and how it can be an awful place to be? The author Walter Dean Myers shows us the depiction of the war in Vietnam the main character in the book Richard Perry a young boy from Harlem being thrown into the war because of his life at home and doesn't want to really deal with people. The book Fallen Angels is a realistic depiction of war. The book shows us some untimely deaths, graphic violence and the main protagonist inner thoughts and doubts. Through the novel Fallen Angels the depiction of war is shoved into the main characters face with graphic violence untimely deaths that occur and the …show more content…

This topic that i have shown to you shows you what war is like how violent, how depressing and scary it is. Fallen Angels gives us the depiction war and why it is mostly romanized. If you were a soldier going into war blindly and you had no idea what was going on then after being there for three months and someone ask what's happening you wouldn't want to tell the. You wouldn't want to tell them that you shot a man in the face so much that there was no longer a face just a red mesh of blood and skin everywhere, you wouldn't want to tell them your thoughts and how your friend was blown away three feet from you it's easier to just tell them daily things. Like what you ate for breakfast and who ranked up you think what soldiers go through nowadays and why they act so different when they come back because of how much war changes you. This depiction of war that the writer Walter Dean Myers shows us everything these soldiers go through and how it changes a man you could be a nonviolent man and never believe in god but once you're thrown in war your whole life will be

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In the novel Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers, the main character is Richard Perry. In the beginning of this book, Richard was a generous and eager to start as a soldier in the Vietnam War. He soon becomes responsible and understanding of what it is like to be a black soldier in the war and how hard it can be to the other soldiers. Near the end, Richard becomes powerful and alerted near the end of the book. This character clearly relates to the theme of the book, which is age and race can impact somebody’s life a lot.

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In the beginning of the novel, Perry was an uncertain teen who didn’t know where his place in life was “The real question was what I was doing, what any of us were doing, in Nam” (69). By the middle of the book, Perry started to become doubtful of himself and started to say Jenkins and Carroll died because of him “In a way i felt real bad just for being alive to write it” (110). And by the last few chapters he really starts to lose his way and lose his judgement from right and wrong “Maybe when we all got back to the world and everybody thought we were heroes for winning it, then it would seem right from there” (229). During my reading of Fallen Angels, I began to notice the theme, and I think the theme is that War is devastating to people because it can totally mess you up psychologically and physically.

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The 1989 Coretta Scott King Author Award was presented to Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers. Fallen Angels tells the story of Perry, an African American soldier during the Vietnam War. Although Perry faces the traditional trials that all soldiers face, he have additional obstacles because he is black. This is a ware perspective that is rarely shared, but Walter Dean Myers does an excellent job in bringing it to light. Fallen Angels is an award-winning text because it is the story of an African American during one of the worst wars in American history.

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