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= __ Key Facts __ = ** full title: **Fallen Angels ** author: ** Walter Dean Myers ** type of work ** : Novel ** genre: ** Coming-of-age story; historical fiction; war fiction ** time and place written: **1988 ; Jersey City, New Jersey. ** date of first publication: **1988 ** publisher ** : Scholastic Inc. ** narrator ** : Richie Perry, a young African-American soldier in the Vietnam War ** point of view: ** Richie tells the story in the first person, giving us immediate, intimate access to his thoughts and feelings as the action unfolds. ** tone: ** Richie speaks with immediacy and poignancy, baring his innermost fears and thoughts. He filters the action of the novel through the medium of these emotions and ideas. ** tense ** : Past ** setting (time): ** Several months in 1967 and 1968 ** setting (place): ** Vietnam ** protagonist: ** Richie Perry ** major conflict: ** Richie struggles to come to terms with the grim reality of war, which contradicts the myths about war that he believed going into it.

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