"Expecting the unexpected" is the perfect phrase that matches the historical but fictional
             novel, "Fallen Angels". Richie Perry , the protagonist, had just joined the army and later fought
             for several months on 1967 and 1968 in the Vietnam War. When he first joined though, the
             author, Walter Dean Myers, gave Richie illusions to how war was supposed to be. Richie, like
             other soldiers in the novel, expected wars to be just like movies and stories. They always showed
             battles as heroic, glorious, etc. But during that time at war, those illusions were hardly close to
             the reality of what war was supposed to be. As a result, Richie found himself struggling to come
             to terms with the horrifying reality of war, which contradicts the myths about the war that he
             At first, Richie didn't want to let go of his beliefs on war. He believed that the good,
             smart, and careful soldiers were the ones that always survived while death came to enemies,
             unskilled soldiers, and just all-around bad people. The longer he stayed fighting in the war was
             the more he realized how wrong he was. Death, to him, was now unfair and random. One
             example of how death was unfair and random would be by a man named of Jenkins. Jenkins was
             young man who went to war only because his father wanted him to. He spent about two days in
             the war and as a result, he got killed instantly by stepping on a hidden landmine. This death was
             unfair because it wasn't his decision to go to war and he had no control over his death. It was
             random also because he had went through a little battle and later died just when he and the rest of
             the soldiers with him were reentering their camp.
             Richie also believed that life in the army would be much more simple than complex. He
             believed that all the soldiers would be heroic, glorious, and the army would have a lot of help and
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