Part one of term paper
In the book by Walter Dean Myers, we read about the hardships and troubles of the main character, Richard Perry, during the Vietnam war. We learn a lot about Perry throughout the book, and by the end of the book we feel like we know exactly how Perry feels, and we have a understanding of some of the hardships that the soldiers faced in Viet ...

Part two of term paper
... he is. Then Perry looks deep inside and asks himself with “all the dying around me, all the killing, was making me look at myself again, hoping to find more then the kid I was. Maybe I could sift through the kid’s stuff, the basketball, the Harlem streets, and the find the man I would be.” In the beginning of the book Perry is very different than he is at the end. In the beginningof the book Perry goes into the war a little scared, because he doesn’t know what to expect. After Perry is ...