![]() ![]() Without knowing it Richie begins to mature by asking these kind of questions and tries to understand the carnage of war and why he’s there. His intellect, curiosity, and soul searching questions he asks himself are noticed by the squad and he becomes the unofficial therapist for the squad. ![]() He meets many new people in the army and is well acknowledged by his squad. When Richie first arrives in Vietnam he is lost and confused about himself, his life, and can’t grasp the brutal reality of war. He is a 17 year old high school graduate who just enlisted in the army to help his alcoholic mother, who lives in the slums of Harlem, with their family and bills. Richie Perry is the lead character in Fallen Angels. Richie struggles to come to terms with the grim reality of war, which contradicts the myths about war that he believed going into it. ![]() The narrator of the story is Richie Perry. The story takes place in Vietnam several months between 19 during the Vietnam war at an American base at Chu Lai in South Vietnam. But due to misfiling he is sent into combat which he is not mentally ready for and does heavy soul searching into the meaning of life and why he is here. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers is about a young black male named Riche Perry from Harlem who enlists in the Vietnam war to try to help his single mother with bills. ![]()
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