Fallen Angels

Fallen Angels Walter Dean Myers In Fallen Angels, Walter Dean Myers introduces the theme of how a person can change just by the environment they enter. He does this through the character Richie Perry and his experience in the Vietnam War. The reader can get an idea of how this occurs by Perry?s conflict with man, himself, and the Vietnamese wilderness. Perry?s whole ordeal in ?Nam? is mainly focused around the ?firefights? he …

…used to everything even the plants trying to inflict pain on him and for this reason, it is hardest for him to remain the same man he entered the country as. By these examples and steps of Perry?s change, the reader can see the progression into the complete change he experiences by the end of the novel. Myers does this by all the experiences Perry must encounter to earn the right to go home.