How would you feel if you got sent off to Vietnam to fight in the war? Well in the book Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers Richard Perry is seventeen In the middle of the Vietnam War with no friends. He soon finds his unit and is sent into his Vietnam camp where he has to make friends and survive with his unit. He gets out into Vietnam were he gets stuck in a ton of combat where he is scared out of his pants. He soon makes a friend with Pewee Gates and finds that the war is easier when he has a unit that feels like family to him. But when one of his own dies and he gets injured he falls back in his frighten body. I predict that Perry will find himself in the middle of the war and will get re-injured and will never be able to go back to war because of his injury.
First of all, back then in Nam there was a ton of fighting and a lot of people died. Which makes it easy to imagine that Perry will get hurt and then have to travel back home. They are also in an unprotected place for the enemy to attack them. They are in a middle of a field with no surrounding landscape. Perry already has got hurt so he is more prone to injury then the rest of his company. Perry has a huge chance of getting hurt in the harsh environment of Nam.
Even though Perry's mental state is a key reason why he might get injured, Vietnam's Environment has the same danger. Perry has to take a malaria pill everyday because of the disease that go around Nam. The mosquitoes are also a disease spreader if they get a bad bite they could get a rash or get a sickness that might kill them. Close to three men in Perry's unit have gotten sick, and two of those three died. As you can see Nam is not a good environment to live in because there are so many diseases.
Last of all Perry is totally freighted of the war which makes his instincts drop a lot. He is so weak with his fear of getting re-injured. Perry also has a lot of scared friends which makes his unit weaker and easier to spot in combat. Perry also has bad feelings about places and sometimes freezes in battle due to these bad feelings. Perry is an easy target because of his quivering body and because of that his chance of injury is way up.
In conclusion, Perry is exposed from his recent injury, the environment, and his fear towards war. I think that my prediction is going to happen due to these examples he is an easy target with all these weaknesses. He will get re-injured and sent back to America where he can recover with his family.
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