Life is around you and in you..."
Currently, my tenth grade English classes are working with a student teacher who is reading Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers. Earlier in the school year my eleventh graders and I studied The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien.
Both novels are set on the front lines of the Vietnam conflict. More than sharing a similar setting, thematically both pieces address the individual cost of war, while raising questions about who goes to war (Angels) and what those who serve bring back with them (Carried).Though I have enjoyed both the musical and Milos Forman's 1979 film version, the obvious connection between both books and Hair (1979) only came into clear view as I was digging through my thoughts and files in search of a song to share for this week's Music Monday.
It's a little embarrassing that I hadn't really considered (or mined for a previous post!) what now seems an oh-so-obvious connection between these literary selections and the film... especially given the shared settings. Perhaps it's because up until "Let the Sunshine In" and the accompanying images presented above that the movie seems to become truly serious (and shocking).
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