There are many similarities from the novel Fallen Angels and the movie Platoon. Both Platoon and Fallen Angels took place during the Vietnam War. Fallen Angels and Platoon are similar in the protagonists, the settings, and the climax.
The protagonists in Fallen Angels and Platoon are very similar. In Fallen Angel the protagonists name Richie Perry and in Platoon the main character is named Chris Taylor. They are both fighting in the Vietnam War. Perry and Taylor’s reaction to the aspects of war were also very similar. One aspect they both had to deal with was death. Both of them react very frightened and sorrowful towards seeing all of the dead and injured bodies everywhere, both Rick and Taylor deal with this fright and sorrow with violence. When Perry got scared after almost being killed by a Cong he takes all of that anger and sorrow, and turn it into violence, by shooting 2 clips in the Cong’s face. In Platoon, Taylor has to climb over hundreds of dead bodies and he finds Sergeant Barnes, who had previously killed Sergeant Elias, Taylor takes his anger from both the recent ba...
Here are the flashbacks and foreshadowing. One of the similarities is they both had to do with animals and their parents telling them something. The other is that they have flashbacks of animals. Those are the similarities with flashbacks and foreshadowing.
Another similarity in the book and movie is that the characters have to go against their morals in order to decide what to do in certain situations. An example of this in the book is when Skip realises he would have to trespass and steal in order for him to keep himself and his friends alive. Or in...
In both books they share some traits, even though they may not look anything alike they are. both of these novels are dystopian novels and many characters share similarity’s.
In Alex Horton’s essay, “Ides of March,” which he posted on his personal blog, “Army of Dude”, on March 20, 2011, he tells us a little about his platoon, Battle Company, Second Platoon. In this reflective essay he tells us how they have disbanded – and he tells us about the platoon’s losing one of its own, Brian Chevalier, who was a “driver for first squad.” Chevy was blown “out of the Stryker” he was driving, apparently being killed instantly. He talked about how it happened so suddenly, like an announcement when a family member passed away. In this essay Horton remembers Chevy, sharing stories and memories from other men in their platoon. The reason on why Horton wrote this essay because on an emotional state about what he felt about when
... platoon member’s everyday lives. Also it shows how relative the Vietnam war is to modern day war conflicts. The fact that Tim O’Brien lived through those events taking place in the Vietnam War, help guide him to go farther in than most other authors to describe in first person detail of what occurred during that war, and how the Vietnam War is in relation to current wars.
The book Outlaw Platoon written by Sean Parnell is a soldiers’ tale of his platoon in one of the most dangerous places on earth. This book is a non-fiction riveting work that tells the story of a platoon that spent sixteen months on an operating base in the Bermel Valley, the border of Pakistan. This mission the men were sent on was part of a mission called Operation Enduring Freedom. This book is extremely relevant to the war that we are still fighting in Afghanistan and the humanitarian work that continues. We still have men in this area fighting and losing their lives everyday. It is the focus of ongoing political debates and the purpose of our involvement there is an ongoing question in the minds of many Americans. In writing this book, Parnell makes it clear in his author’s notes that he indeed was not trying to pursue one political agenda over another. His goal as not to speak of all members of the platoon and expose their identities and the types of soldiers they were but instead to showcase some of the men’s bravery and abilities during the war. Parnell believed that he owed it to the men to write something that would show the world what these men go through during combat in an honest and raw account. Another purpose of Parnell’s in writing this book is an attempt at making sure these men are given a place in American war history.
The characters and society are similar even if the novels have a completely different story. They
... almost nothing alike from a superficial aspect. The stories have different historical contexts and they simply don’t have much in common to the average audience. It is easy to contrast the stories, but deep within certain elements, the stories can be linked in several ways.
The similarities are prolific in their presence in certain parts of the novel, the very context of both stories shows similarities, both are dealing with an oppressed factor that is set free by an outsider who teaches and challenges the system in which the oppressed are caught.
The Power of the intangible things, fear, guilt and love is demonstrated in The Things They Carried and Soldier’s Home. In The Things They Carried two of the themes are about fear and love, In Soldiers Home one of the themes they talk about is guilt. The writers of the two stories apply to the same idea. In Soldiers Home, Ernest Hemingway mentions guilt in the story. In The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien mentions fear and love in the story. Both of the authors had the same general idea to write about Soldiers coming out of war and how they survived but do there ideas connect?
Another similarity in the setting is that both short stories take place in a war setting, the Vietnam war and the Ireland war. The characters in the two short stories have pretty equal similarities and differences. One of the big differences between the two characters is that one is a republican sniper and the other is a soldier. Another one of the differences between the two short stories is that the soldier in Ambush is scared and nervous about killing but the sniper in The Sniper is excited. “ He had been too excited to eat.”
Using the title of the book to say that the soldiers are killer “angels” is an excellent description. They were people who fought for a cause, which was not always understood by some. In the introduction of the novel, soldiers from Lee’s army are described as most...
Fifty-eight thousand were killed, a pair of thousand captured, and three hundred fifty thousand; maimed and wounded, just about everyone throughout this country still feels the results of this conflict. Today, the kids in the country rest uneasy in response to the senselessness of this struggle. A different generation of school students, staff and young parents bring a singular perspective to the analysis of the implications of this specific war. These square measure the sons and daughters of the boys that fought to their death inside the jungles of South East Asia..
Myers explains the life of a young African American man named Perry that goes off to fight in the Vietnam war. Perry was born and raised in the projects of Harlem New York and joined the army as an escape out of Harlem. "My plans, maybe just my dreams really, had been to go to college, and to write like James Baldwin. All the other guys in the neighborhood thought I was going to college. I wasn’t, and the army was the place I was going to get away from all the questions."(Myers 15). The main reason he decided to go off to war is because he could not afford college and Perry thought the best escape would be joining the army. Although racial equality with in the army and nation was already established before the Vietnam racial tension still caused Perry to join the army. In the late 1960s are nation society was still trying to adapt to the Civil Rights Ac. Even though government housing was racially integrated African American were still separated into an all African American housing. For society had not changed with the nations laws and caused African Americans and Whites to socially segregate one another. Which did not change the housing market after the civil rights and caused African American housing to be as awful as it was in the 1950s. Even in the setting of “Fallen Angels” African Americans were still trying to escape poverty with joining the army. The escape of war was even
Although one is a book and the other is a movie, both Apocalypse Now which is directed by Francis Ford Coppola and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad portray very detailed scenes by using various elements in their respective works. A scene is particular that stands out is the death of the helmsman which contains many similarities but also many differences between the two works. Similarities like the iconic fog that appears serve to convey a message of the helpless that the characters feel because at the mystery of their surroundings and of the uncertainly of what their tasks.