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Summary: Fallen Angels Review
Review: Fallen Angels is a tale of five soldiers coming from different parts of the States to serve their country in the Vietnam War which is taking place in the 1960's.The book's main focus lays on a soldier by the name of Richie Perry a young kid out of the poor streets of Harlem (New York). Perry didn't have any intention to go to the army, he preferred college, but after not getting in he was left with no other choice. While in Nam the soldiers face racial conflicts between themselves that distracts them from the war. While having to fight off constant conflict barriers Sergeant Simpson, Lieutenant Carroll, and others are making an effort to come up with various tactics to defeat the Congs, as Peewee says. The characters must also deal with the physical abuse they go through while still having to participate in combat. The book in general deals with issues concerning violence and racism. Although the story wonders off into long spans of dialogue, it still keeps the reader entertained with its action-oriented themes. It contains inappropriate language for younger audiences, which is spread throughout the book.
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Summary: Fallen Angels
Review: The book Fallen Angels was very intriguing. It is a story of a boy from Harlem New York who inlisted in the army and got sent to Vietnam to fight in the war. The book is an inside perspective of the Vietnam War, the stuff they don't teach you in any school classroom. The thrill, hardship, and terror of the Vietnam War, it's all here. Take a look inside, then you can realize what I saw in the Vietnam War after reading this book. ~Note: This book does NOT tell about the cause of the war. It focuses more on the soldiers and their lives.
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Summary: Fallen Angels
Review: A great read. Walter Dean Myers expresses the hardships of war through a young childs life extremely well- painting a vivid picture especially for an adolescent like myself. Beware, there are some brutal scenes of violence and carnage from the Vietcong.
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Summary: Review of ¿Fallen Angels¿
Review: Fallen Angels is about a soldier named Perry and his adventures in Vietnam. I thought this was a great book and I couldn't put it down. I was assigned to read this book, but I read it even in my spare time for fun. There is a lot of action when Perry and his squad go into battle. There was a lot of history about the Vietnam War. This kept me interested the whole time. There are a couple of points where the story gets a little weird when Perry is thinking about his feelings about the war and killing people. He seems to be really depressed and moody and really wanting to go home. He wishes he never joined the army. But it helped me understand how a soldier must have felt about the war. I would recommend this book to anyone, especially fans of history and action books. One last thing make, sure that you have a lot of spare time before reading Fallen Angles, because you won't want to put it down.
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Review: This book is really good, I was actually talked into reading this when I didn't want to and I ended up reading around a hundred pages a night because I liked it so much. Its a really emotional story filled with alot of humor and strong emotions. I really think everyone should read this. I knew nothing about the Vietnam before this and now at least I have a little knowledge of what it was like.
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Summary: My Book Report
Review: Fallen Angels By Walter Dean Myers Fallen Angels is about a soldier named Perry and his adventures in Vietnam. I thought this was a great book and I couldn't put it down. I was assigned to read this book, but I read it even in my spare time for fun. There is tons of action and history, which kept me, interested the whole time. There are a couple of points where the book gets a little weird when Perry is thinking about his feeling about the war, but it helped me understand how solider must have felt about the war. I would recommend this book to anyone, especially fans of history and action books. One last thing make sure you have a lot of spare time before reading Fallen Angles because you won't want to put it down.
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Summary: Great Intro. for the Vietnam War
Review: This is a great novel for people that want a headstart into the Vietnam War. It is told from a soldier's point of view and has a real-life feeling to it. The book is really easy to understand and doesn't have much hard words in it, although there are a lot of swear words which are considered 'normal' to military people. This is another one of the greatest books (and the most interesting)I've read so far this year and I think everyone should give it a try.
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Summary: If you like action you like this book
Review: The book i read was Fallen Angels. This is a very exciting, action, thrilled book. In the beginning the book is hard to get in too but after the first two chapters it starts to get a lot better. In this book there's a nineteen year old guy named Richie Perry. He was a black high school graduate from Harlem. He has a goal that one day he would like to accomplish. He wants to go to college and become a great writer, but he is to poor. He can't afford to go to school. He lives with his mother and younger brother. His dad abandoned him. He likes to play basketball. He injured himself while playing basketball. He injured his knee. He was then ordered to Vietnam. His captain said, "He probably wouldn't be involved in any combat because of his injury". During the trip to vietnam there was two new recruits assigned to the same squad as Perry. Their names were Harold Peewee and Gate Jenkins. They all became good friends. Peewee had a tough personality. He always acted as he was all that. He never acted serious. He was always joking around. Gate Jenkins was a scared person. He didn't want to be there. Later, sadly he was killed by land mines. Perry and Peewee go through tough and hard times but they got through it. They got minor injuries, but they survived. Both of them go home safely on planes along with there lost ones. The book was very good. I like how they expressed the feelings and the terror the soldiers go through in the book, but they struggled to show or express the reality of the Vietnam War. They didn't tell how the war was about stopping the spread of communism. Otherwise the book was great. I recommend this book to anyone aged 10 and up.
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Summary: Fallen Angels
Review: This book is about a nineteen year old Richie Perry, who is ablack high-school graduate from Harlem. He travels to Vietnam afteronly basic army training. Perry had always dreamed of going to collegeand becoming a writer, but his father abandoned the family yearsbefore he even had a chance to continue with his dream. Perry thenwent and enlisted in the army because he could not afford to go tocollege, and he wanted to help support his younger brother, Kenny. Acouple months earlier during his basic training, Perry had messed uphis knee playing basketball during his training, but by chance therewas a delay in the processing of his medical profile. Therefore, hehad no choice but to continue his training. His captain had assuredhim that he would be sent home without ever having to fight in combatwhen his medical profile is finally processed. This describes ourbasis for the story. It then illustrates the hardships that he and hiscrew had to overcome. Not just during battle on the field but againstthe US Army itself. Fallen Angels illustrated the tragic irony ofturning teenage boys into killers and cannon fodder for a war thatthey don't really understand, nor had a chance to get out of. The bookalso illustrates very clearly the divisions of race and class inAmerican society during the Vietnam War. Most of the soldiers of thewar fell largely on the working class and minority youth. Collegestudents, largely from white, middle-class backgrounds, were exemptfrom the draft. However, people like Perry, who were to poor forcollege, chose to enlist in the army. The irony is that the men whowere fighting were the ones that didn't have the privileges andluxuries of the America's, and yet they were sent to war to defend theAmerican ideals against Communism, to fight for thecapitalistic-dependent American Dream. These soldiers got sent into awar that was constantly contradicting itself, and for what?... Evenwhen enlisted in the army they were not treated as soldiers but aslower class soldiers. Racial killings amongst soldiers were verycommon during Vietnam. Even though the war with Vietnam was over theracial war was still far from over.
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Summary: Fallen ANgels
Review: Fallen Angels is about a dramatic epic about a young Afro-American male realizing that his life has changed by a simple signature of his name. I began reading this book not too long ago and really understood what the story meant. I agree with another person's review that this book gave me much information about the Vietnam War that I had not known. Being a Vietnamese-American myself, I grew up having a different perspective of the Vietnam War. Having never read a war story before, I chose Fallen Angels to see if it could grab my interest. As I began reading I saw that Walter Dean Myers used very descriptive language that made me feel like I was there myself. A metaphor that Myers uses is "there were shadows all around me, laughing jerking and mocking". His language truly a phenomenal gift. He used the names and words that people used in that time period such as "Vietcong", "Charlies" and, "hooch". He also used vivid details and description to show the harsh and cruel ways that the war dealt with people. Myers quoted " They tied them to a tree and ripped out their guts and left them there still alive". The story is based on a young seventeen-year old African-American boy from the streets of Harlem that has just finished high school and wants to attend college. But, his dreams of being a college student is crushed and Perry had to find another alternative, which was to enlist in the army. Perry is sent to the war. Along the way, Perry meets Peewee, an aggressive individual that becomes a close friend of his. Together, they overcome many harsh situations in the story that test their abilities. Through the book, war, gunfire, and the killing of people occur one after another. Perry and his friends are put to the test when they battle with the hated Vietcongs in which they go through seeing their friends and fellow soldiers die. As the story progresses, Perry and his friends realize that the have more dangerous assignments than the whites. They even wonder why they are even in the war helping their country. In conclusion, Fallen Angels captures the reader's imagination and puts he or she in the story with Perry and his friends.
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