Part one of term paper
War can turn even the strongest of men humble. The novel Fallen Angels is about a small group of men who come of age in the Vietnam War. Richie Perry, the novel’s protagonist, enlists in the army mainly to escape his problems—a bad relationship with his mother, a lack of opportunity in Harlem, and an uncertainty about his future. He fin ...

Part two of term paper
... is depicted through Perry’s action and speech, thoughts, and even by his physical appearance. Walter Dean Myers uses many examples of characterization for the purpose of developing the character in relation to the other elements of the story. Myers uses indirect characterization in order to paint a mental picture of Richie Perry. Action and speech can reveal a lot about a person’s character. We see this in the novel when Perry is going on his first patrol, for the first ten minutes he had to w ...