Fallen Angles Is About A Young Boy Named Perry

The next day after the patrol, Jamal, a medic tells Perry that Captain Stewart has reported that the Patrol Perry had been with yesterday, had killed three enemy soldiers when they really only killed one enemy soldier. Later on in the chapter, Perry wakes up one morning and has a very bad stomach ache. He later finds out that the sickness he had caught would cause him to constantly go to the bathroom. So he was ordered to stay in bed and rest until he gets better. After a few weeks of rest, going to the bathroom and laying in bed, Peewee asks Perry to write a letter to Earlene, Peewee’s girlfriend, because Peewee is too emotionally hurt about the fact that his girlfriend is engaged to another man while he is at war.

But, with war comes tragedy and in this novel, tragedy is a common occurrence in Richie Perry's platoon. The saddest part of the novel was the death of Jenkins shortly after arriving in vietnam. For instance, “ There was a shard of metal protruding from jenkins chest. The blood gurgled out of the wound, it made and sprayed along the concave metallic surface. He tried to bring his hand to it, to touch it.

The author, Tim O'Brien, is writing about an experience of a tour in the Vietnam conflict. This short story deals with inner conflicts of some individual soldiers and how they chose to deal with the realities of the Vietnam conflict, each in their own individual way as men, as soldiers.

One character is obviously the comic relief, another the beloved hero. The rest, valiant men fighting for their country, their lives, their freedom. The scene ends and the curtain rises, all of the pseudo soldiers take a bow and go home to their normal lives, far from the hands of death that grasp at the men forgotten in Vietnam, the real soldiers. They, who saw the hardships of war as more than just a script, beyond the glamorized versions that are seen by the American eyes. They saw the death and the tragedy, slowly becoming worn down into less of a human and more of a desensitized killing machine because that 's what war does. It permanently scars the soldiers, tearing away the feeling of loss and inappropriately replacing it with comedy, showing that war is destructive, stealing away an ounce of humanity with each bullet. As seen in The Things They Carried, written by Tim O 'Brien, the Vietnam War destroyed the minds of soldiers, causing them to lose their human emotions in an unglamorous setting, devaluing death as they lose their ability to appropriately handle situations.

Approaching the topic of how war stories should not be moral, O’Brien brings an interesting point to the novel by introducing Curt Lemon as a character who died in a pointless manner. As described by O’Brien in his short story, Curt Lemon is a young and free-spirited soldier in Vietnam whose life ends in an extremely sudden and horrific way when he  accidentally steps on a rigged mortar round. Through the analysis of sentence structure in The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, one can find that Curt Lemon’s character demonstrates the carelessness that many soldiers in Vietnam displayed.

Jenkins is a member of the same squad as Perry and Peewee. He is nervous and skittish young man, who joins the army because his father, a colonel, wants his son to have a military career. “Jenkins steps on a mine during his first patrol and Perry watches him die- the experience is profoundly devastating

I read this book in high school, and I really enjoyed it. After we were finishing reading the book we had a guest speaker who was a Vietnam war vet come into our class and speak on different parts of the book. I picked this short story to do my paper on because I felt like I had the most connection to this story because of my prior knowledge from reading the book. I do think I am getting some parts confused with the short story and the book. I know when I read the book in high school some chapters were very dull and boring but others were exciting and interesting. After reading the short story it was just a refreshment of the interesting things that happened in the book.

     Richie, the narrator and protagonist, and the members of his squad fantasize of their first sexual experiences. Peewee, a member of Richie’s squad, even sets goals for himself. He says he will “drink wine from a corked bottle, smoke a cigar, and make love to a foreign woman. These are all immature ideas the boys have but they are soon taught that the real things that must focus on are not alcohol and sex, but the virtues and values they will learn as a soldier.

Richard Perry was a young seventeen-year-old black boy from Harlem. He did not have the money at go attend college so he decided to join the military. Perry played basketball throughout his life which resulted in a knee injury, but that did not stop him. On the way to Vietnam and at the beginning of his time there, Perry did not expect the events that were about to happen. “We spent another day lying around. It seemed to be what the war was about. Hours of boredom, seconds of terror.” (Myers 132). Perry and the rest of the men in Vietnam were put into hard positions and had to go through tough things. Perry had his friend, his leader, and was put into the hospital twice. Jenkins was the first to die among Perry’s friends. After the death he was hurt, but had to continue of and fight for his country. His lieutenant was the next of his close friends to die. Everyone was devastated about the loss of their lieutenant. The war had barely began, everyone had to still fight their hardest and not leave their guard down for anything. Many questions and prayers were spoken throughout the time in Vietnam. “I really wasn't pissed, because I knew the real

In this final chapter, O’Brien strings the various threads of plot events together to form a cohesive message. Each of the major themes is illuminated as each of the major stories is retold mostly told about Vietnam and a younger version of himself

First, the reader must understand just what makes a good "war story". The protagonist of the novel, Tim O'Brien, gives us his

In Tim O'Brien's book, "The Things They Carried", it's about the man named, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, who is going though many sacrifices and obstacles when it comes to this girl back home where he leaved and her name was Martha, but then it makes him realize where he is at and why he is there which later makes him see the conflicts its caused him and his epiphany to see the truth of it all.    The story is about a lieutenant who goes to war in Vietnam and leaves the girl from college he loves behind but she sends him letters them realizes  the he is there to fight for peoples lives and not to fall in love with a girl that he only went on one date with back in college.    While Lieutenant Cross goes off to Vietnam for the war he has to sacrifice and leave the girl he loves named Martha behind but when he leaves he takes many pictures of her with him and she writes him letter as well so he could keep them with him while he is away. And while he is away she sends him his lucky pebble to remind him of her and he just thinks about how much he loves her and can't have her in his life.

James Webb focuses on three main characters in his novel: Robert E. Lee Hodges, “Snake,” and Will “Senator” Goodrich. The inspiration for these three characters seems to be not the life of any particular historical figure, but rather the common backgrounds of real soldiers who served in Vietnam in general. Characters in the novel are most often developed only after their initial introduction into the story. After introducing a character to the reader, Webb will often follow this introduction with the story of the characters life before the military and how or why he decided to enlist. Those characteristics not mentioned at his introduction or those that change are typically revealed during or after intense, traumatic events, such as near-death experiences or witnessing the death of a friend. Although the novel centers on only three characters, these three characters represent highly prominent reasons that American’s had for enlisting; to continue a family legacy and protect his family’s honor, to escape the steep decline and unhappiness of his life, and by accident or unwillingly being drafted.

Her Uncle, Emmet, is also sent to Vietnam only when he comes back to the United States he suffers from PTSD and becomes a hippie. After Emmet returns from War Sam’s mother, Irene, takes care of him and eventually lets Emmet be the caretaker of Sam and the house as she moves to Lexington to continue school and start a family at the University of Kentucky. During this time Sam and Emmet become very close and Sam spends time around some more time with some of Emmett's friends that are also vets. The story follows Sam as she searches for more detailed information about what exactly Vietnam was like, meanwhile trying to find out more about her father in the process. Not only is this a coming of age story, but also one of a loss of innocence. Sam ultimately discovers that the war was viewed in different ways and had differing effects in the soldiers morals.

The story begins with two friends drinking. Leo wants his friend, Glover, to enlist and fight in the Iraq war. Because Leo saved his life, Glover feels he should enlist with his friend, but Glover doesn’t want to enlist.