The Fallen

People who are exposed to combat in war will change their entire lives. In the novel, Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers, the story is set during the Vietnam War. The story includes a character named Richie, who has been drafted to war at a very young age. The novel shows how soldiers who go to war change because they are exposed to new experiences. Fallen Angels shows how people who go to war become a different person through religion. It also shows people changing in war by showing soldiers becoming more aware of their surroundings and more suspicious of them. A third way that the book shows soldiers changing when they go to war by becoming more brave, tough, and supportive. The book clearly illustrates characters changing throughout their…

Rise of the Fallen Rise of the Fallen is a Christian fiction novel written by Chuck Black. It’s theme revolves around angels and demons and God’s hand in seemingly impossible situations. In this novel, the plot centers around Validus, a high ranking warrior angel. He is given a seemingly menial and low-profile task by Elohim to protect a man Elohim deems extremely important. Along the way, Validus, meets up with his old friends and enemies who are after the same man. The strong points of this…

relationship is shattered because of the love she possesses for Bendrix. There, however lies a problem with adultery. The women of Sarah’s time were focused on social equality, women’s rights and changing their roles in society. Sarah displayed something different. The book The End of the Affair, was written during the Modern Era, but throughout we see how Victorian ideas are incorporated and we see how Sarah displays the image of the “fallen woman”…

After presenting the different aspects that make the Valley of the Fallen a controversial monument, we must go over the possible solutions to redirect the tension and trauma and ultimately, resignify the Valley to create a point of unity among all Spaniards, since, as the biggest mass grave of the war, all ideologies and regions have a common point, the grievance of the victims of the war. But it is worth bearing in mind the position of those who think that the Valley has been used for too long…

and all his followers out of Heaven and placed them in hell. At that moment God changed Lucifer’s name that meant “morning star” to Satan that means “adversary”. Satan was able to seduce one third of the angels to his side. And now Satan and that third of angels are fallen into a burning lake and fallen from Heaven. The poem opens up with Satan, who was just fallen from Heaven and wakes up on a burning lake. Satan realizes he’s lost everything what he had and the fight and now is stuck in a…

The Tragic Ending of Faust: An Interpretation of Faust II, Act V, Lines 11678-11829 In Part II, Act V, line 11678-11829 of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s tragic play Faust, Faust’s soul is rescued by angels. There have been many scholars that have interpreted this scene as representing the redemption of the protagonist after a life of evil and destruction (Van der Laan, 67). That view has now largely been rejected. An alternative reading of this scene would be to deny Faust any identity at all,…

Fallen Angels Harry Patch, the last survivor of World War I once said, “War is organized murder and nothing else.” The book Fallen Angels written by Walter Dean Myers forces on a 17-year-old kid named Richard (Richie) Perry. Perry enlists in the army, after finishing high school because he could not afford college. After being in the war less than a week he realizes it was a mistake. Throughout the story he saw his friends and strangers killed and blown to bits. The book does an excellent…

Biographical Criticism, shows how, a reader, relates his or her possible favorite author’s past, in order to relate it on how that author writes their story, and how the simplest pieces of texts relates towards their past. Walter Dean Myers was a famous author in his times, some of his well known books/poems included, Monsters, Fallen Angels, Slam!, Hoops, Bad Boy: A memoir, Harlem, Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices and etc. As he was young his mother had died when he was the age of 2, which…

To determine whether or not Satan has free will in “Paradise Lost, first we will broadly define free will to determine a clearer definition of what Milton considers as free will. According to the Oxford Dictionary, free will is “the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one’s own discretion” (Oxford Dictionaries Language Matters). In “Paradise Lost,” because the notion of free will seems to contradict what we consider to be freedom, we will first…

until you dry up like an old piece of leather. But I won’t stop there. I’ll have a reaper escort your soul straight to Lulerain where you will suffer for all eternity.” The demon had a smug look on his face. “You can’t touch me unless you’ve proof I committed a crime. Treaty rules say so.” He referred to the Thalox treaty that had been drawn up long ago, protecting demons from malicious slaughter. Seemed the world needed a balance of good and evil. Eli snarled. “I make my own rules, and they…