Fallen Angels - Section 1(pgs. 1-57, Ch. 1-4)Name:______

Find your reading rate for Fallen Angels:

Record the number of pages you read in 15 minute increments. Once you have 2 data points calculate pages per hour by adding the two numbers together and multiply by two.

Starting Page # / Ending Page # / Total Pages (ending page – starting page) / Starting Time / Ending Time
(stop and record at 15min)
Total pages read in 30 minutes:

Vocabulary: Try using the context in the book to define the following words; if needed, look them up

Nam (p.4) -

Hooch (p.27) -

Malaria (p.21) -

White phosphorous (p.49) -

RPG (p.22) -

Fatigues(39)-

Hemophilia(p.16)-

Platoon (p.34) -

ARVN(p.51)-

Cong/Vietcong/VC/Charlie(p.21) -

Answer the following questions after reading Chapters 1-4 of Fallen Angels (use text evidence)

5. A flashback is a scene that interrupts the narration and shows something that happened at an earlier time. As Perry narrates Fallen Angels using the first-person point of view, he often interrupts the action to tell the reader about his family back in Harlem. What do these flashbacks reveal about him and his relationship to his family?

6. Explain how Perry came to be in Vietnam despite his bad knee.

7. How does Peewee respond when a soldier who is physically larger insults him? What do his actions reveal about his character?

8. Situational irony is a discrepancy between what is expected and what happens. Jenkins says that his father has a “game plan” (p.28) for his army career. How does this contribute to the irony of Jenkins’s death?

9. Why do the members of the squad stop talking about Jenkins after his death?

10. Direct characterizationis when the reader is told what a character is like. Indirect characterization gives the readers subtle clues (such as through their speech, actions, their effects on others etc) as to the personality of a character. How does Myers use the character Perry to characterize Lieutenant Carroll both directly and indirectly (Use text evidence)?__

Connect to the Text:“Sometimes, when I was tired and the competition was really rough, things would change for me. There would be a flow of action around me and it would seem as if I were outside of myself, watching myself play ball, watching myself trying to establish a place for myself…” (p.35-36).

Have there been moments in your life when you felt “outside of yourself?” Describe such an experience using the first-person point of view.