Clarke Murphy

Clarke Murphy
Fallen Angels
Walter Dean Myers
History
Just right
145

1-Right now in the book Brunner has been angered because the draft cards in the U.S. have been burned. He is really mad and uses bad language to describe his anger for them. He also is blaming them for not having enough troops in the army. Meanwhile Johnson talks to Richie about war protestors and then they get into the topic of joining the army. Richie doesn’t know if he wants to join yet because he isn’t quite sure who the good guys are and who the bad guys are yet. Johnson tries to convince Richie to join because of all the communism in Europe but Richie doesn’t know if he should believe him because he has lost a lot of faith in people.

2- This has been a pretty good book for me. It started out very slow which I didn’t like so I took a while to get into it. I am enjoying this book because I have always had an interest to get as close to war as I can, without actually being in it. I think it’s interesting to read about battles and “behind the scenes” stuff about war like all the troops that are in it and what happens when they aren’t in battle. All that being said it is a good book and I think that the action is still rising so that will be good.

3- I have been noticing a friendship theme in this book. I say this because all of the squadron troops were very good friends with Carroll and then he died. In all of the other battles they were all helping each other out especially Carroll, but he didn’t really like them as much as he was liked. I feel it’s almost karma that he died because he didn’t really embrace friendship, and that all the characters that partake in friendship are living. Also in bad times during the war the troops pick each other up and keep them going.

4- My favorite character in the book right now is Richie. I like him because he is a very intellectually smart person and he listens to both sides of the story before he makes his decisions. Also I think that he is very clever because he doesn’t always believe everything he hears, like when Johnson was trying to get him to join the army, but he doesn’t believe everything he says because in times like these when Johnson has to recruit troops for Brunner, he will do anything he can.

5- My least favorite character has to be Brunner. I say this because he is one of those stuck up people that thinks that he is right 100% of the time. He is also very snobby when he doesn’t get what he wants. For instance he wants more troops for the war but he is not getting them. A good leader would just move on and work with what he has but all he did was complain and make the troops figure out what to do. I also find Brunner to get annoying.

6- It is hard to say where this story is going, but if I had to guess this is what I would say. Christmas is coming soon so I kind of feel like everyone will “agree” to be at peace for a week or two, but then the Americans will attack the Vietnamese. Also I feel like some violence could break out amongst the American troops because of all the racial stuff that is happening in the U.S. and that some of the racially different troops will turn on each other.