Fallen Angles Banned Book
Fallen Angles
Have you ever be interested in the topic of war? Fallen Angels is a book about just that, the Vietnam War to be exact. The main character’s name is Perry, a soldier who was drafted into the military in the 1960’s. In 2002, Fallen Angels was banned in some middle schools “for offensive language, racism, violence, and being unsuited to age group.” People think the book has too much profanity and drug use. Fallen Angels should not be banned because it tells young people the history of America. It gives examples of what the soldiers went through each and every day.
There are numerous examples of offensive language through out “Fallen Angles”. Some people think this is a bad thing, they think younger people in middle school and some high schools kids shouldn’t be aloud to read this. The soldiers didn’t only use swear words they also used phrases. An example of this is right after Johnson got done fighting with Jenkins Perry was telling him it wasn’t smart because he is so little and this response was “ No Shit”.(Myers’ p30) A few times in the book the word fu*k is used. Even though its not used bad towards someone it should not be read by younger people. The language in this book is correct to the time period though And people can learn a valuable lesson form reading this novel.
“Fallen angles” has a lot of racism in it. The n word is used a lot though out the novel. The life of the black soldiers is shown as less valuable as the life of a white solider. In the beginning of the book when the platoon is being assembled the entire platoon is made of young black men and right away they are sent into the heat of battle. After Perrys platoon leader died in a firefight Lieutenant Gearhart took over. He was a white guy who thought just because he was white he was better then his fellow black soldiers. He would have the other soldiers go into bad situations where they could have easily died. They didn’t like this too much so they would not listen to him,
Have you ever be interested in the topic of war? Fallen Angels is a book about just that, the Vietnam War to be exact. The main character’s name is Perry, a soldier who was drafted into the military in the 1960’s. In 2002, Fallen Angels was banned in some middle schools “for offensive language, racism, violence, and being unsuited to age group.” People think the book has too much profanity and drug use. Fallen Angels should not be banned because it tells young people the history of America. It gives examples of what the soldiers went through each and every day.
There are numerous examples of offensive language through out “Fallen Angles”. Some people think this is a bad thing, they think younger people in middle school and some high schools kids shouldn’t be aloud to read this. The soldiers didn’t only use swear words they also used phrases. An example of this is right after Johnson got done fighting with Jenkins Perry was telling him it wasn’t smart because he is so little and this response was “ No Shit”.(Myers’ p30) A few times in the book the word fu*k is used. Even though its not used bad towards someone it should not be read by younger people. The language in this book is correct to the time period though And people can learn a valuable lesson form reading this novel.
“Fallen angles” has a lot of racism in it. The n word is used a lot though out the novel. The life of the black soldiers is shown as less valuable as the life of a white solider. In the beginning of the book when the platoon is being assembled the entire platoon is made of young black men and right away they are sent into the heat of battle. After Perrys platoon leader died in a firefight Lieutenant Gearhart took over. He was a white guy who thought just because he was white he was better then his fellow black soldiers. He would have the other soldiers go into bad situations where they could have easily died. They didn’t like this too much so they would not listen to him,