The novel Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers was first published in 1988. The novel is about American soldiers fighting during the Vietnam War. Richie Perry, the protagonist and narrator, joins the army to escape his uncertain future. Perry tries to find himself but later he faces more confusing and traumatic life in Vietnam than the world he fled. The author shows the theme, the reality of war that the war is brutal but war movies show war as heroic and glorious, giving the whole society illusions about war. Perry finds the real reality of war in Vietnam after he finds it hard to communicate with his family back in the World.

The novel starts off Richie Perry, an African-American who recruited himself to the army after graduating high school. Perry was sent to Vietnam to fight in the United States Army to protect South Vietnam from...