FALLEN ANGELS

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FALLEN ANGELS

• By Walter Dean Myers
• Book Report by Chris
• Derby Middle School

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WAR

• The year is 1967
• In the middle of the Vietnam war
• Takes place over the course of a year
• In the jungles of South Vietnam

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Richie

• Known as Perry (his last name).
• He is 17 years old.
• He is a new recruit in the army.
• Nervous about the war.
• Receives 2 purple hearts.
• From New York

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HenryPeeweeGates

• Perrys best friend.
• Stays with Perry the whole year
• They are both African-American
• Always looks on the good side of things

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Johnson

• The strong guy of the squad
• Carries the big pig the sixty cal. machine gun.
• Third African-American
• From Georgia

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Monaco

• Their Italian friend.
• From New York like Perry.
• A religious man.
• Has a wife back home.

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Vietnam

• War against communism.
• Very bloody war.
• Longest war America was involved with.
• Many protests against it.
• Left some men traumatized.

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Personal Conflict

• Perry is trying to survive a year in vietnam.
• Has a little brother named Kenny.
• Perry wants to be a good role model.
• Has trouble with all the killing going on.

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Thoughts on what happened.

• War is not pretty.
• Vietnam is a war we lost.
• Americas first experience in guerrilla combat.
• Many people died.