Fallen Angels By Walter Dean Myers This essay is about how a change occurs in a Vietnam Vets life due to his conflicts with man, himself, and the Vietnamese wilderness.

Fallen Angels
Walter Dean Myers
In Fallen Angels, Walter Dean Myers introduces the theme of how a person can change just by the environment they enter. He does this through the character Richie Perry and his experience in the Vietnam War. The reader can get an idea of how this occurs by Perry?s conflict with man, himself, and the Vietnamese wilderness.
Perry?s whole ordeal in ?Nam? is mainly focused around the ?firefights? he encounters against the Vietcong (VC) and the North Vietnamese Army (NVA). As he first arrives ?in country?; he can sense this new evil creeping over him. This i…