JOURNAL QUESTIONS FOR FALLEN ANGELS By Walter Dean Myers
Chapter 1: What is the significance of Perry and Peewee meeting in the beginning, and at
the end of the chapter?
Chapter 2: During the second chapter, why does the author give background information
about the characters? What does this mean to you?
Chapter 3: Does Jenkins want to be in Vietnam? How was he finally able to leave?
Chapter 4: How do the men cope with Jenkins leaving their squad?
Chapter 5: What emotions is Perry experiencing in the beginning of this chapter? Have
you ever felt the same way?
Chapter 6: Why is the war compared to a movie? What does this make you think about?
Chapter 7: Why do Johnson and Walowick get into a fight? How do you feel about these
issues?
Chapter 8: A mishap takes place during this chapter. How do you feel about this
incident?
Chapter 9: What is the importance of a pacification mission? How do the men feel about
it?
Chapter 10: What happens to Lieutenant Carroll? What is an angel warrior?
Chapter 11: How do the men deal with the passing of Lieutenant Carroll?
Chapter 12: How do the men feel about the people who are at home?
Chapter 13: What happened during the first mission with Lieutenant Gearhart?
Chapter 14: How do the men feel about Lieutenant Gearhart after their first mission?
Chapter 15: How does Perry feel after he kills his first person?
Chapter 16: What does Perry experience while on the helicopter?
Chapter 17: What is the significance of the woman bringing her children to Charlie
Company?
Chapter 18: Why does the ARVN colonel order the Americans to go up the hill, and then
when they get to the top, he has them come back and the ARVN troops go first?
Chapter 19: What are the soldiers feeling as they leave the village?
Chapter 20: Peewee says “ No, I’m going to go out get me some more seventeen-yearolds like us that don’t know nothing and turn them all into animals.” What does this
mean?
Chapter 21: How does Lobel feel after he kills his first man?
Chapter 22: Why does Perry say that they were “all sitting in the shadow of death?”
Chapter 23: Why does Perry see Brew, Jenkins, Sergeant Dongan, Turner, and Lewis, the
new guys, and Lieutenant Carroll trailing the platoon? What do you think that this
means?