Bertrand Russell could not have been more accurate by saying, "War does not determine who is right-only who is left." This proves to be true in the Vietnam War. In the 1950s the United States began to send troops to Vietnam; throughout the following 25 years, the ensuing war would create some of the strongest tensions in United States history. During this time frame, an estimated 2.5 million people were killed for an unknown cause. United States soldiers were fighting the North Vietnamese, and none of them knew a valid reason why; after all, the Congs were not much different from the U.S. Soldiers. Many of the American soldiers didn't come home from Vietnam, and the ones who survived only survived because they learned to contend with the harshness of war. Walter Dean Myers wrote Fallen Angels, a novel that realistically recounts the day to day lives of a group of solders in the Vietnam War and the way they cope with reality of it; faced with the horrors of war, each soldier must either reconcile reality with his personal beliefs or cling steadfastly to comfortable illusions of absolute morality.
Richie, unlike many of the other soldiers, chooses the difficult first option, struggling to make sense of his experiences and refusing to turn away from the difficult questions they raise. Richie's fellow soldiers, who are too afraid to come to terms with the reality of their situation, warn him against what they call his dangerous thinking. Each soldier has his own way of blocking out the uncomfortable thoughts and nagging doubts. Richie's way to temporarily escape reality is to send letters to his family that he knows he will really not send. He recognizes that he is alone in his search for truth, reflecting that "the questions kept coming and nobody wanted to deal with them."(p.129), Yet just as his friends cannot bear to look the reality head on, Richie cannot bear to ignore it.
Peewee and Lobel both try to understand their role in the war, but do so in different ways because of their different personalities and backgrounds.
Fallen Angels Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers, begins with the introduction of an African American 19-year-old boy who lives in Chicago. ... In a matter of 15 minutes darkness has fallen and Peewee and Perry are lost alone and unsure if their troop has any remainders. ...
The book Fallen Angles was a very exciting book the kept me on the tip of my seat just waiting to see what happened next. Although Fallen Angles is one of the longer books that we have read this year in English, it was the most enjoyable book. ... Fallen Angles was a great way for the author to show what kind of life styles that the American soldiers had to live like while fighting in Vietnam. ... Fallen Angels is the first real book that I really enjoyed because it was so enjoyable that I forgot that I was reading it for school and it was so easy to read it was almost like I was watching ...
Milton depicts the angels as being in a state of eternal joy by singing. Nevertheless the angels are not being presented with as much intensity as the devils are. Despite having been cast to hell the fallen angels are still shown to continue on in their old ways as if nothing has happened to them. Milton aptly describes the fallen angels by giving the names that they were worshipped with and a succinct description. Milton employs an epic simile to exaggerate the number of fallen angels and hence the amount of evil. ...
According to Paradise Lost, the fallen angels started out as equals among all of gods other angels. ... After recovering from their defeat, the fallen angels awaken to discover the horrible nature of their new environment. ... To pay God back for what he has done, the fallen angels decide to conquer man and make them their slaves. ... Instead of the traditional way of talking about the fallen angels of Lucifer, Paradise Lost shows them in a light that would make them almost human. The fact that the fallen angels miss the comforts of Heaven is one example of this. ...
FALLEN ANGELS FCA's:1. ... The name "Warrior Angels" was given by Lieutenant Carroll to American soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War. When soldiers are killed in action, they become "Fallen Angels." ... They transform into warriors but are still angels on the inside. 2. ...
It proceeds with angels falling from the sky and the song "Sexy Angels" by Fallen Angels starts to play in the background. As the angels continue to fall, they surround the man who sprayed himself with Axe. ... At the end of the commercial, the voice over says,"New Axe: Excite; even angels will fall." Many things about this ad caught my attention, such as the changing of the environment as soon as the man who used the Axe product stepped outside, the dropping of the angels out the sky, the playing of background music, and when the man said, "New Axe: Excite; even angels will fall. ... As I s...
The loss of innocence is an evident theme in both Walter Dean Meyers' "Fallen Angels" and Tim O'Brien's "The Man I Killed". ... Comparatively it is evident in both pieces from Myers' with Lieutenant Carroll calling the dead soldiers "angel warriors" because usually young boys were the ones who fought the war; despite the fact that they were quite young and most of them couldn't vote. ... In "Fallen Angels" Myers' characterizes the loss of innocence through the young soldiers differs from O'Brien in "The Man I Kille...
Several of the fallen angels take turns speaking their pieces about which course of action will prove the most prudent. ... The democracy', then, was merely a fazade put on by Satan and Beelzebub to keep the fallen angels loyal by letting them think that they had some power in the decision-making. ... - God inquires of the angels (PL, III). ... There is no talk of vengeance on the fallen at all. ... The fallen angels, in accordance with their characters, are lower to the ground, deceitful and corrupt, while the heavenly host remains erect - a symbol of its uprightness and holiness. ...
In the book called Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers, Richie Perry is a person who's a emotional and changeable. ... Richie changed and he'll be forever known a falling angel. ... Perry Richie is more than this and this what is what I'd like to present you about Richie Perry, a falling angel....
