Compare And Contrast Essay On Fallen Angels

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While reading the novel and watching the movie, you could connect in many ways while seeing the differences and similarities. In Fallen Angels, Richie Perry, uncertain of his future, joins the US Army. A black high school graduate from Harlem. He travels to Vietnam to fight. After basic training, he harbored the illusion about the war. He hopes his medical profile is received so he doesn’t have to go engage in combat. When arriving in Vietnam, Richie meets a friend named Harold “Peewee” Gates and Jenkins. Time continues and Richie witnesses the mass destruction and brutality of war. He sees that there is a line between good and bad. Lt. Correll is killed in a combat mission and Richie begins to see the true meaning of life. Richie struggles to find the motivation of …show more content…

Units get ambushed by North Vietnamese Army forces, who kill the commanding officers. After defeat, the Vietcong commander orders final attack using the rest of his soldiers and reserve forces. Hal Moore seeing it coming, prepares for this fight. In the last scene, Lt. Moore kept his promise, being he was the last person to step onto the helicopter. Between the book and the movie, the characteristics differ and are similar in many ways. Fallen Angels expanded more on the different characters, who they were, and why they were there. Unlike in the movie, We were Soldiers, there weren’t as many characters and much wasn't expanded on who they were, and why they were there. One main character from Fallen Angels was Richie Perry. He was a seventeen year old high school graduate. He was smart and ambitious but lived in a home with his brother and alcoholic single mother. Perry thought it would benefit him by joining the military but really enlisted to escape his uncertain future. Although his health showed differently, he was sent to Vietnam and suffered through many harrowing combat experience. Perry tries to gamble with the

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