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Fallen angels is a testament to the thousands of young adults who fought and died in the vietnam. When he was three years old, his mother died and his father sent him to live with herbert and florence dean in harlem, new york. A coming of age tale for young adults set in the trenches of the vietnam war in the late 1960s, fallen angels is the story of perry, a harlem teenager who. The book always receives a tremendous response from readers. Read all poems of walter dean myers and infos about walter dean myers. Not everyone has loved myers gritty, nonheroic depiction of vietnam. I created this video with goodman media about my 1988 novel on the vietnam war, fallen angels. After finishing the book fallen angels by walter dean myers as my eighth grade reading project i found myself relieved to say that i finished the bo. However boyish he is, he also must fight for his country, and he bravely and calmly saves another soldier, monaco, from death.
The human element of war can fade as time goes on, a trend walter dean myers chose to counteract in his novel on the vietnam war, fallen. Read a plot overview of the entire book or a chapter by chapter. The human element of war can fade as time goes on, a. Perry and his platoonpeewee, lobel, johnson, and brunnercome facetoface with the vietcong, the harsh realities of war, and some dark truths. Walter dean myers poems, quotations and biography on walter dean myers poet page. Fallen angels walter dean myers audiobook ebooks download pdf epub doc. The book is set in the 1960s and the basic plot of this book is how a young black american male from harlem enlists in.
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