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Fallen Angels

Fallen Angels. Written by: Walter Dean Myers. Attention Getter. “There is only two kinds of people in Vietnam. People who are alert twenty four hours a day and people who are dead.” “Myers”. Thesis Statement.

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Fallen Angels

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  1. Fallen Angels Written by: Walter Dean Myers

  2. Attention Getter “There is only two kinds of people in Vietnam. People who are alert twenty four hours a day and people who are dead.” “Myers”

  3. Thesis Statement • Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers uses believable characters, themes of development, and a realistic setting to accurately portray a soldier's role/life in the Vietnam War.

  4. Main Characters • Richie: Narrator • Johnson: A large black man from Georgia who joined the army because there was nothing in the world for him to do. • Peewee Gates: a high school dropout from Chicago who joined the army because a background of profound poverty and the kind of life he left behind

  5. Walter Dean Myers • Born on August 12,1937 in Martinsburg, West Virginia. • His mother died when he was 3 years old. • He moved in with a foster family in Harlem. • He dropped out of school at the age of seventeen to join the army.

  6. Blueprints • Believable Characters • Themes of Development • Realistic Setting

  7. Blueprint 1 • Believable Characters: He used a lot of narration to make the characters believable and to bring them to life.

  8. Blueprint 2 • Themes of Development: The themes of this novel are coming of age and survival.

  9. Blueprint 3 • Realistic Setting The setting makes u feel as if u were really in the war with the men in the novel.

  10. Tie Back • Walter Dean Myers did an amazing job at bringing the characters to life and making readers feel as if they were in the war themselves.

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