6/28/2023 0 Comments Invasion by Walter Dean Myers![]() Nobody wanted to talk,” the soldier says after an officer is killed. The 1988 “Fallen Angels” told the story of the war from the point of view of a young black soldier. In one of his most popular - and controversial - books, he took on the Vietnam War. In so doing, he gave his young readers a tour of American and African American history. He took on topics as diverse as Muhammad Ali, basketball, the Normandy invasion, the Haitian revolution and the Chisholm Trail. Once he found his writing voice, Myers’ ambition became ever grander, his curiosity seemingly boundless. It was me who lay on the cot wondering if I was fooling myself.” ![]() ![]() And I knew she felt that I didn’t do anything wrong. Compassion.” Later, Steve is alone in his cell. I wanted to ask if they had found anything in it. ![]() At one point, Steve’s mother visits him in jail. ![]() “She brought me a Bible,” one of Myers’ protagonists says of his own mother in “Monster.” Steve Harmon, has been accused of murder for acting as a lookout during a robbery in which a killing is committed. It was writing clearly designed to reach people like his own stepmother, who raised him, and who loved books but who “probably read at a third-grade level,” Myers once said in an interview. His prose style was often a kind of YA noir, with staccato rhythms, punctuated with short sentences. Myers himself wrote, almost always, as if he were inside the skin of the young dropout he once was. ![]()
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