War Fiction : Fallen Angels

The Killer Angels is a very interesting and intriguing novel about The Civil War and gives us day by day actions through out it all. That is what really interested me in the way this book was set up. Every day, there was a diary from different characters. Because of this, we get to see different views from different characters and how each one of them have their own stories in the war and how they got through the war. At the very beginning of the story, we meet a spy named Harrison, who loves his Shakespeare. He sees that the Union Army is coming, because he sees about twenty thousand men all at once. He is so scared and surprises and runs to tell the two generals, General Longstreet and General Lee. This is our introduction to the character I will talk about

During war, many people change physically, mentally, and socially. War itself is disturbing to the mind. In Walter Dean Meyer’s Fallen Angels, the characters undergo many changes as they learn the true meaning of war. Perry, Peewee and Johnson all change in the sense of their personalities and their outlooks on life. In the beginning of the novel all the characters have very distinct characteristics. As the story progresses they start to see how war can have a huge impact on your life.

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.

Fallen Angels in America Tony Kushner's play Angels in America was set in the 1980s, amid Ronald Reagan's administration. Many people believe that this play is political, since we hear a significant amount about Reagan. Additionally, his administration has been largely criticized for its negligence toward the AIDS crisis. Furthermore, numerous LGBT activists have blamed Reagan for overlooking the epidemic since it was thought to be, for the most part, a disease that primarily affected gay men and, perhaps not surprising, African Americans. Although, Tony Kushner's Angels in America primarily focused on the AIDS epidemic in the United States, Kushner masterfully used themes of political, racial, religious, hopelessness and whiteness, to unload the more profound complexities inside the political views of the LGBTQ development

In the passage from chapter fifteen in Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers, is about how the men are going on a company patrol up a hill. The landing zone was covered with Punji sticks which would make your cuts infected if they were stuck on you, Monaco found a mine sign which meant the patrol had kept a lookout for mines on the ground. The company was traveling uphill, while Richie was walking he went through a bush and his gun got stuck with one of the branches from the bush as he thought it was a Vietcong grabbing him but it turned out to be just the branch. The author says, the “mountainside opened up” Gearhart started shouting that the firing was from up the hill. As the Soldiers were ambushed they were still trying to take over the hill.

In the novel Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers, true heroism is shown throughout many events in the story. One of the many characters in the book, Lt. Carroll, was said to show heroism before the main character, Richie Perry, came to the war. Another example of heroism by Lt. Carroll is when he was trying to lead his squad to safety but ended up getting hit himself. The third way Myers showed heroism is when Monaco, one of the squad members, was captured by the enemy and Richie and Peewee, another one of the squad members, saved him.

It made me feel a little better to see him crying like that” (24). Soon after, the group arrives at their base and encounter a booby trap where Jenkins steps on a landmine and dies. The reality of war sets in even further for the other men, as they realize how easily they could have been in Jenkins’ position. Since the group acknowledges their time overseas is far from over, they try to make the best of their situation. For instance, when their Sergeant, Simpson, asks how they like Vietnam, PeeWee responds saying, “I loves it here...I ain’t never seen no place in the world better than this place right here. You know what I love the most? ...The bugs” (55). Although the men are homesick and miserable, they try to keep a positive mindset, as mindset is crucial in a life-or-death situation such as theirs. Later on, Richie gets sick, which causes him to miss a patrol with his group and have to patrol with another squad. In the hectic threat of attack, Richie’s squad accidentally attacks the entire first platoon-- their own men. Deeply disturbed over the incident, Richie analyses the situation; the fear, the confusion, the reason the men were in Vietnam in the first place. “The guys our artillery blew away didn’t

The killer angels is a world acclaimed novel that was written by an author known as Michael Shaara. In the year 1975, it was granted the Pulitzer Prize for creative writing. It gives us in details the occurrences of the four days in the Battle of Gettysburg. This was during the American Civil War that occurred in the year 1863. At this time, troops that comprised of both the Union and Confederacy were at war in town called Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. This is a piece of story that is driven by disposition and narrated from the point of view of various heroes (Hartwig, 1996).

Following orders, digging a foxhole, carrying a twenty-three pound M-60 assault weapon, or chasing Charlie does not erase the virtues previously programmed. Typically related to ethics and the distinction between right and wrong, morality exists throughout The Things They Carried in many forms. In the book, even the most deranged characters manage to be kind to one another. When dealing with death, characters experiment with ways to respect and remember the dead. In foreign Vietnam, the soldiers deal with cultural differences and work to find a middle ground. In the book, Tim O’Brien illustrates how morality manages to survive amidst the gore of the Vietnam War.

You are 17 years old in 1967 and your single mother does not have enough money to send you to college. So, you decide to enlist in the army. In Vietnam, you meet some amazing leaders and some not very much. There different methods and styles of leadership help you so much, but they also put you and the rest of the soldiers in danger. Through the characters of Johnson, Carroll, and Dongan, Myers novel suggests that the different methods and styles of leadership affect the men severely under their leadership.

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

Walter Dean Myers historical novel, Fallen Angels takes place in Vietnam during the war. The main character Perry, recently enlisted in the army, to fight in the Vietnam war. Perry could not afford to go to college because of his rough childhood in Harlem, also growing up with no dad. He faces many problems throughout war even when he is homesick for his family in the beginning. One of the closest warriors and his bestfriend he finds in the army is Peewee a very experienced veteran who is a great leader. Perry and his fellow warriors have to fend off the Vietnamese and use determination to win the war. The theme expressed in this story is that personal experiences enable people to mature.

In the criticism by Sherry L. Morton-Mollo she examines how Myers wanted to stop war being seen as romantic or heroic. She mentions the irony of the title stating multiple meanings of it, "Fallen soldiers may be seen as becoming angels." She includes the actual meaning to an fallen angel, an angel who has fallen to sin, and compares them to war and the soldiers in the novel. Morton-Mollo states that Myers wanted to show the "ambiguity" of war with the title, which she then states raises complex questions like "Who are the Devils and who are the angels of the story." She also includes that through his character Myers shows that war strains human emotional resources to the limit.

The True Cross Held by Two Angels is another true cross reliquary around 1320 from Champagne that now is located in the Louvre Museum with the relic still inside. This reliquary is gold platted, but the angles that are holding it up have paint residue on their faces. The sculpted angels mimic the late medieval French style with flowing light drapery and gothic smiles that are tightly thin-lipped. The angels are holding up the relic and lions are holding up the base of the reliquary. Lions symbolize French royalty and are typically depicted at the feet of kings on their coffins. So this reliquary attempts to relate the French royalty to the Passion of Christ. The outside of the reliquary is heavily decorated, more so than the True Relic

The Warrior Angels, commonly known as the Powers, patrol and protect all that is within the cosmic fabric. They are clad in armor of blinding white light and carry swords of fire and light. The sole purpose of these angelic warriors, which includes Archangels Michael and Cassiel, is to provide Divine protection. They stand wing tip to wing tip facing outward in a circle around that which they are protecting, and using both their vambraces and swords of light deflect any and all negativity away from our sacred space. Anytime that we feel threatened by negative forces, including the malicious intentions of others, people with a strong negative vibration or attitude, dangerous situations, or even the onslaught or existence of evil, for example, we can call on them for protection for ourselves as well as for others. They will come, not one, but many, because they work as a cooperative group for the protection of all. The greater the threat or danger, the greater the number of those who come. It is important to note, however, that these angels (or any angels) will never interfere with the course of our karmic path,