Fallen Angels Richard Perry Character Analysis

In the book Fallen ANgels by Walter Dean Myers, the story follows young men soldiers who fight in the Vietnam War. Perry and Peewee who are from New York and Chicago, respectively. The only reason for Perry going to Vietnam just because of paperwork mistakes. A knee injury has left him unfit for combat duty. Peewee joins in the army so that the treatments are as same as other people.

Perry for example was already uncertain of his future and his knee injury already had him on edge. towards the end of the book after burning the corpses of his past comrades he lost all faith, and innocence. So the theme of the book is that war is devastating to person both mentally and

Richie an African American teenagers who graduated from high school in Harlem, New York. After high school Richie wants to go to Vietnam to fight in the United States Army. Fallen Angels is historically accurate fiction because this book isn’t true but it relates to the characteristics of the Vietnam War, Walter Dean Myers was in the military. The theme of this book is youth and innocence. The four characters are young and don’t really know what to expect when they arrive in the Vietnam War.

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers, is a 309 page war novel based on the Vietnam War. This book was published in 1988. The main character is Richie Perry, a seventeen year old boy fresh outta high school. His main reason for joining the army was because his mom did not have enough money to pay for college so he went to the army hoping to find something there. The other main character in this novel, Harold “Peewee” Gates, is extremely different from Richie.

In some ways this helps him explain this situation to himself. The central theme would be the loss of innocence to the young boys. The understand the harsh reality of war and that it isn’t glamorous at all. The mix up of his medical files contribute and show the disorder and confusion that is to come. Perrys constant struggle with the whole reason to war contributes to the harsh reality of the war theme.

As times got worse, Richard dropped out of Jefferson High-school when he was in 9th grade and curiously became the ultimate stalker. Later, he began to worship Satanic at an early age by his cousin who influenced most of his life decision’s. His cousin was never normal ever since he got back from the Vietnam War. Richard’s Cousin, Green Beret would come home and tell Richard

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was a very important soldier in the Civil War, and although Chamberlain was a citizen turned soldier rather than a high-ranking officer, he was still able to help lead the Union Army to victory. In the book Killer Angels, written by Michael Shaara, the author provides the reader with perspective from the Union side of the long Civil War through Chamberlain. He reveals Chamberlain’s character through not only direct characterization but also through his decisions, words and actions. He’s a complex character with many faces. The reader gets to know him as an intelligent teacher, a courageous soldier, a decisive leader, a devoted brother and friend.

The book that I am reading for my summer reading is Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers. This book is about soldiers who are fighting in the Vietnam War. The book focuses around the main protagonist Richard Perry and is in first person through Perry’s perspective of the war. Perry’s life is different compared to mine for instance Perry is the age 17, he has a single mother and younger brother he is having to support by joining the army while just finishing high school. While I have both my parents and a sister, and I do not have to support my family., and just starting high school.

What they do not look at: “Psychological effect of the war” War is something that has much more than physical effects. It is a burden on those involved on and off the battlefield. Being part of a war can affect you emotionally, mentally and physically. Even though soldiers are fighting for “just causes” was is an all-around negative event.

This chapter “The Ghost Soldiers”, showed us how Tim O’Brien and the other soldiers were dealing with the war both physically and psychologically. It also shows us how the Tim O'Brien behaved and felt when he was shot, wounded and had a bacteria infection on his butt and how the war changed the way he thought, and viewed the other soldiers around him. This chapter also contain a lot of psychological lens. From the way Tim O’Brien felt when he was shot and separated from his unit to a new unit to when he wanted revenge on Bobby Jorgenson for almost “killing” him.

How it was shaped: Tim allowed the draft of the Vietnam war and societal pressures get to the best of him and he slowly tore himself apart, he started off as a confident incorrigible man. His morals later then became corrupted, he gave into the pressures, his self proclaimed Lone Ranger status had been infected and debunked by his end decision of serving in the Vietnam war. Thesis: In the story, On the Rainy River, the author, Tim O’Brien demonstrates that an individual allows societal pressures and expectations to override their core values, morals, and beliefs; peer pressure forces individuals to put their beliefs aside so they can fit in with everyone else. The narrator, Tim O’Brien faces a similar situation when he get’s drafted for the Vietnam War.

He fought a war in Vietnam that he knew nothing about, all he knew was that, “Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons” (38). He realized that he put his life on the line for a war that is surrounded in controversy and questions. Through reading The Things They Carried, it was easy to feel connected to the characters; to feel their sorrow, confusion, and pain. O’Briens ability to make his readers feel as though they are actually there in the war zones with him is a unique ability that not every author possess.

How he hated being drafted and how badly he wanted to run away. He tells how he took time to himself to decide whether or not he was going to run away and risk being caught and imprisoned or go join the army and risk dying over in Vietnam. He states at the end, “ I passed through twins with familiar names, through the pine forests and down to the prairie, and then to Vietnam, where I was a soldier, and then home again. I survived, but it's not a happy ending. I was a coward.

The older man 's behavior contrasts with that of the persona who is young and has barely experienced life. Whereas the speaker is eager to discover life and have new experiences to escape her reality, the older man avoids his truth by focusing on mundane details of his experience in the Vietnam War. Furthermore, the older man was once a young man himself, surely eager to have new experiences, as he enrolled in the army. Instead of having these desires fulfilled, his memories of the war have caused his view of the world to greatly deviate from that of the persona and

Racial segregation affected many lives in a negative way during the 1900s. Black children had it especially hard because growing up was difficult to adapting to whites and the way they want them to act. In Black Boy, Richard Wright shows his struggles with his own identity because discrimination strips him of being the man he wants to be. Richard undergoes many changes as an individual because of the experience he has growing up in the south and learning how to act around whites.