Fallen Angels is the story of Richard Perry, an intelligent but impoverished high school graduate who, unable to afford higher education, enlists in the U.S. Army just before the inception of the Vietnam War. Perry's experience in Vietnam is rendered in vivid, often gruesome detail. He recounts unflinchingly tales of American military atrocities alongside records of guerilla brutality and the grinding mental and emotional pain of combat fatigue. The novel is noteworthy for its heavy use of profanity and for its frank account of the wartime experience.
Killer Angels is the story of the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. It is told from multiple perspectives by a number of narrators on both sides of the conflict. The novel is meticulously researched and presents the tragedy of the conflict in the context of honor-driven culture and the propaganda-based need for General Lee to achieve a victory on Union soil. It dwells powerfully on the horrors of war.
The second part of Angels in America, Perestroika, sees Prior, a gay man with AIDS, encountering an angel while his lover, Louis, runs off with a Mormon man, Joe. The angel tells Prior that it's his job to put an end to human progress. The play continues the themes explored in the first part, with characters questioning their identities. It also adds a spiritual element, with the character of the angel, as well as a social commentary that suggests that humankind has a long way to go but can improve.
Part one of the play Angels in America, Millenium Approaches, focuses on the intertwining fates and overlapping storylines of two couples, Prior and Louis and Joe and Harper. Prior has just learned he has AIDs and is now hearing a mysterious voice while Joe, a Mormon, is struggling to accept that he's gay. The play examines identity and what it means to be gay, rich, or Mormon. It also offers a sharp critique of the early days of the AIDs crisis.
A universal theme for war is that war is bad and it is not the answer In The Killer Angels the plot is about the Civil War so there is a lot of fighting War is not the answer and it is really bad because a lot of people die homes and jobs are destroyed and the economy suffers Many people died in the Civil War It had the most American casualties in any war because both sides were American In the book a lot of people died and some of them were important people like A P Hill and Johnston Pettigrew
Walter Dean Myers wrote the book Fallen Angels It is about Americas experiences in the Vietnam War as told by the main character in the book Richie Perry Perry goes through a lot of changes and sees some of his good friends die in battle fighting for a cause that no one could agree upon The book has 4 other main characters Lobel Johnson Brunner and Peewee The book starts off talking about the experiences of Perry while he is serving in Vietnam His best friend Peewee becomes instant friends with
While honor and self realization may be ideological terms often associated with a war cause brutality and self scarification are perhaps more realistic descriptors The brutal and ferocious atmosphere of war often forces its young soldier constituencies to sacrifice any childish views of life and mature Walter Dean Myers novel Fallen Angels details the tragic loss of innocence of group of young soldiers who surrounded by the unspeakable horrors of the Vietnam War are forced to prematurely journe