Walter Dean Myers's 'Fallen Angels'

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Lobel Hate to love, love to hate it is said, “All is fair in love and war.” In the book fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers, Where Lobel was a member of richie’s squad . He was jewish and mayhap to be homosexual, Lobel suffers from nearly as much judgment as his black squad mates, to whom he pledges his support in racial skirmishes. Lobel is obsessed with movies. He incessantly views the war as if it were a movie and at the battlefield as if it were a movie set. He thinks about lighting improvements, set changes, and camera angles. During missions, he imagines himself as an actor playing a role, casting himself as the star of the film so that he is the soldier who doesn’t die.Lobel matures during his time in Vietnam. He begins to worry over
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