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Fallen Angels - College Term Papers

Fallen Angels

Fallen Angels

by Henry David Gantt
2/28/14

The characters, themes and literary devices used in Fallen Angels, a novel by Walter Dean Myers, make it the compelling, critically-acclaimed novel that it is.
The three major characters in Fallen Angels, Richie Perry, Harold "Peewee" Gates, and Lobel, all have distinct personalities and backgrounds. Perry, originating from the streets of Harlem is a perplexed, innocent child when he first enters the Vietnamese War. Perry has extreme potential, and even dreams of being a philosopher. "My plans, maybe just my dreams really, had been to go to college, and to write. . . . All the other guys in the neighborhood thought I was going to college. ...

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these disturbing images, he tries to shut them out, which proves more and more ineffective the more he is exposed to them. Peewee and Perry share similar backgrounds. Perry comes from Harlem, and Peewee comes from Chicago. Peewee enters the war as a boy and matures and develops after testing himself and his morals. Peewee does not share the same ambition as Perry, claiming he has only three goals in life (drink wine from corked bottle, make love to a foreign woman, and smoke a cigar). Though Peewee copes with the war with his comedy and farce, he will occasionally show true emotion. This happens when he sees a child explode in front of his eyes. "The GI's arms and legs flung apart from the impact of the blast. The damn kid had been mined, and had exploded in his arms". Though Peewee appears light-hearted and easygoing, he reveals a caring, deeper side throughout the book. Because Lobel is a Jewish soldier and suspected homosexual who is in Perry's squad, he is on the receiving end of ...

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Added: 4/2/2014 05:47:02 PM
Submitted By: hdgantt
Category: Book Reports
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