Title: Fallen Angeles
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publish Date: May 2008
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Pages: 309pp
ISBN: 0545055768
Classification: Fiction
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Range: 14 and up
Price: $6.99
Annotation: With no hopes of college, Perry enlist in the Army and gets sent off to Vietnam front lines.
Summary: Set against the Vietnam War, Perry, a Harlem teen, volunteers for the army when he has no chance at going to college. Perry and his fellow soldier are sent to the front lines to fight the brutal unending war against the Vietcong. But he is left to wonder not only why they are there at all, but why the colored soldiers always get sent to die first in the front lines. Furthermore, the horrors of war are beginning to wear him.
Evaluation: Hard to read with a war going on in Iraq that is questionable in itself. But it made it all the more pertinent. I heard that this novel was bashed from all the profanity, yet as I read it, it made it more authentic and harsh. Isn't this the way men talk in war? I think Walter Dean Myers did an amazing justice to the young men that were sent to die sooner because the color of their skin. It was a really, really good book.
Bibliotherapeutic Usefulness: War, Violence, Racism, Surviving
Reason this book was chosen: Given the current Iraq war, a little look at history and racism would do us ALL good.
Bibliotherapeutic Usefulness: War, Violence, Racism, Surviving
Reason this book was chosen: Given the current Iraq war, a little look at history and racism would do us ALL good.
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