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Search for:. Enter your email address to receive notifications of new posts by email. Richie and Peewee get separated from the group, and both get wounded while saving one of their fellow soldiers. They both spend time in the hospital and eventually get sent home. Richie never found the answers, but is just glad to be home. The book Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers has a few aspect of it that can lead to it being challenged of banned.
One of these reasons is the language it uses. As one could imagine, men who are in war could lose their filter from being away from society for so long.
There is explicit language on just about every page in this book, because it is just second nature to the men. This language may be offensive and unnecessary, but it portrays the war very accurately.
Another reason this book could be challenged or banned is the prejudice towards the soldiers. There are numerous accounts where the black soldiers are disrespected, and even put in danger. When a new lieutenant arrives, one of the first things he does when they go on a mission is to put an African American man in the front of the pack, the most dangerous position. He also puts a black man in the back of the pack, the other most vulnerable position.
Another form of prejudice in the novel is the ridicule that Lobel, a suspected gay soldier, goes through. The last reason this book could be banned is the violence of course. The book depicts very violent actions of soldiers, including Richie himself.
Richie, in chapter 14, comes face to face with a Vietnamese soldier. Myers also writes about destroyed villages and dead women and children, and even a child used as a bomb. The book Fallen Angels has been banned or removed in a large number of schools and libraries. Rasta was an offense to those who wanted to deny the African part of their heritage.
And the truth is also. Blench odi. Can a book depict war so descriptively that parents feel that kids should not read it? Many say yes and attempt to ban books like that. This detailed book is meant to reveal the actualities of war.
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