Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers Hard Copy Winner Of Coretta Scott King Award

Description: Good day and thank you for stopping by to take a look at this item from my store. Shipping All returns on books are final. Books will be sent to USPS media mail, packaged in a bubble mailer and deposited in the post within 12 to 24 hours. If there are any issues with the shipping or after you get the item please contact me as soon as possible so I can better assist you. Introduction Today's posting is for a near new copy of the original issue, Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers. This book was the winner of the Coretta Scott King Award . These copies are ex library books and as such have markings on the inside cover of the library that it was placed in, and now marked out of. Besides that there are no issues with this book at all. There are no dog eared pages, stretch or fray spines, water stains, nothing at all but slight yellowing of the pages due to this book being almost 30 years old. Most of them have not even been opened and you can tell that when you open the book you hear the unmistakable sound of the spine stretching and coming to life with every page turn. Overview Prolific childrens author Walter Dean Myers published his novel Fallen Angels in 1988. The young adult novel tells the story of a 17-year-old African American teenager from Harlem named Richie Perry who enlists in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. The novel follows Perry as he faces the realities of war with his fellow soldiers and transitions into adulthood on the battlefield. The novel contemplates racial and socio-economic issues in the US, the transition from childhood to adulthood, and the psychological impacts of war on soldiers. Fallen Angels won the Coretta Scott King Author Award in 1989. Other works by Myers include Slam!, The Greatest: Muhammad Ali, and Street Love. Plot summary Richie Perry is a 17-year-old African American recent high school graduate who joins the United States Army to kickstart his future career goals. Perry is sent to Vietnam to fight in the Vietnam War in 1967, harboring lofty ideas of heroism and morality in war. He meets Harold Peewee Gates on the way to Vietnam, and the pair become fast friends. When Perry arrives in Vietnam, it becomes clear that he is going to engage in combat despite a knee injury, which should keep him from being placed on the battlefield; there is a mix-up with the paperwork, and his proper medical profile does not arrive until the end of the novel. As Perry settles into his squad, he hears several rumors about the peace talks in Paris and how the war will likely end soon; the squad believes that they will soon be sent to Hawaii. Perrys squad is sent on a small mission, having been assured that they would only encounter minor skirmishes since there is not much fighting where they are stationed in Chu Lai. During the squads first patrol, Jenkinsa member of the squad whom Perry met during his orientation alongside Peeweeis killed by a landmine. Perry, having never witnessed a sudden or violent death, is deeply shaken by Jenkinss death. Perry wants to communicate his newfound fear of death and violence to his mother and brother Kenny when he writes to them, but he finds that he cannot put his thoughts and feelings into proper words. The squad continues to encounter an increasing amount of violence as the levels of brutality and destruction become more obvious. Perry begins to question the morality of his actions during the war; he becomes unsure that he and his fellow American soldiers are really the heroes that theyd been made out to be in the movies. In addition, Perry realizes that the captain of Alpha Company, Captain Stewart, has been reporting a higher number of Viet Cong casualties than the actual number to increase his body count in an effort to be promoted to major. Captain Stewart sends the squad on increasingly dangerous missions to help him reach his goal, demanding that the squad be more aggressive in their approach to killing their Viet Cong enemy. Content Warning: The source text and this guide discuss war, graphic depictions of violence and death, and racial discrimination and racist language.

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