The Bio After High School: Fallen Angels By Walter Dean Myers

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.

Reewee Pates: An Unbreakable War Bond Richie Perry and Peewee Gates have the most groundbreaking bond while fighting the Vietnam War. In Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers The two main characters Richie Perry and Peewee Gates are assigned to the same company during the Vietnam War. Throughout the book, the two characters are practically put through pure hell, but this never breaks the bond the two men have. The two soldiers meet at the beginning of the book before boarding the airplane that takes them to Vietnam. One reason why Peewee and Richie have such an amazing bond is because they grew up in the same position.

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.

The Killer Angels, a book written by Michael Shaara that explains the crucial Battle of Gettysburg in the Civil War, along with the perspectives and lives of both the leaders of North and South. The bloodiest battle of the Civil War is explained through the eyes of the leaders of Union and Confederates in a way that is breathtaking and exhilarating. Even though South was determined and bold; The North was able to wear the confederates down because of their leaders who had a strategic plan and clear concept of war to take in prisoners and win for the sake of freedom. The essential concept of war for the Unions meant to free the prisoner slaves and restore the balance and freedom to the country they had fought from the British.

The Killer Angels follows the three day long, decisive battle of Gettysburg during the United States Civil War. The book’s storytelling is purely chronological, as the story progresses our perspective is flip flopped between the Union and Confederate sides of the battle, however the story is consistently told in the 3rd person. Michael Shaara uses immense details when describing this battle and does an incredible job of describing every character and scene, making everything easy to visualize and allowing you to put yourself in the story. The story reveals to us the thought process of all the seemingly fearless military leaders, as they discuss battle strategies and how to outsmart their opponent. Many characters throughout the book explain

“If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments, read some of the plaques, you will come away changed.” Quoted by American novelist, Jeff Shaara, son of Pulitzer prize winner, Michael Shaara, this was his simple message to Americans; that they should take the time and understand the sacrifice and bravery of all the men who stepped foot on Gettysburg during the famous three-day battle. Killer Angels, written by Michael Shaara, is a historical novel that tells the stories of soldiers of both the Confederate and the Union army and the hardships they endured. Killer Angels contains the fiction element that the author creates so that readers can connect with real life historical

In the novel The Killer Angels, many injuries, wounds, and deaths of people were described. Three historical figures in The Killer Angels that were injured are Joshua L. Chamberlain, John Buford and John Reynolds. Colonel

Fallen Book Report My book report is going to be about a book called Fallen by Lauren Kate. This book was published in 2009 by Fernanda Brussi Goncalves. The genre of the book is young-adult fiction, which is for twelve-eighteen year olds.

Through careful representations of these diverse characters, Kushner discusses state politics and the struggle for power which he brings to an individual level, emphasizing thus the effects they have upon an individual. In his mixture of realism and fantasy, Kushner depicts specific instances of personal experience within a wider political scene, with an aim of “proposing a pluralist vision of liberalism in the quest of countering the homogenizing, conformist American society of the last two decades of the twentieth century” (Stanciu 2). It is interesting to notice that, regardless of writer’s personal political predilections, Angels in America attempts to allow both sides to have their say. Its most lovable character is dying of AIDS, but

Angels in America would not have been so wildly popular (plus controversial) if it was not written during The Reagan Era and the start of the realization of the AIDS epidemic. “The author writes only what he or she has learnt from that particular

In Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Theme, Tony Kushner depicts a series of characters who were struggled to live in 1980s. They were challenged by disease, sexual oriental and religion and got lost without appropriate self-identification. Prior Walter as the protagonist of the play, he connects the other characters and his fate drives the plots. At the star of the play, he was the most despair and pathetic character who got AIDS and abandoned by his lover, Louis. However, when he rejects the angel-imposed fate as a prophet, he achieves nirvana not only physically, but spiritually as well.

On top of the sky in that place written a text reads “The Fallen Angel”. “Do.. Don’t tell me that this is inside of that old book? How come such a thing like this could ever happened?” shortly after she has understand everything, that book was taking her into a distinct dimension of the story that she read all this time, the dark side behind a beautiful happy ending story.

"I was too shocked to cry, too confused to take notes or ask questions, too bewildered to even think. " said by New York Times correspondent David Halberstam. In Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers talks about how Richie Perry a seventeen-year-old boy stationed in Vietnam. Richie lost his innocence by experiencing too many war tragedies.

Fallen by Lauren Kate is writen in 3rd person limited, which means that the reader could only know the main character's inner thoughts. “She watched-feeling a confusing mix of deep...” (pg 181) The book title is called Fallen based on one of the main characters, Daniel,who is a fallen angel,the other reason is that the other main character Luce fall in love with Daniel. “You're an angel, Daniel, I know it,” “I'm in love with an angel,”(pg 390,391)

This story is written by Brian Caswel and he is persuading the power of love between 2 siblings. Brian Caswel used three techniques of the characters development, setting, theme to tell the story of the main character (Jason). Brian Caswel used a lot of meaning behind the story sixty minutes, and this short story of his was really about family and treasuring their love. This story proves that family will always come first no matter what happens in life but lastly, it’s about life after death. Jason the main character saw his own spirit was out of his body and can see what is happening with his surroundings.