All The Broken Pieces Essay

The novel, “All the broken pieces” by Ann E. Burg, is a fantastic book. This book is a constant page-turner, and is very straightforward so you don’t get lost anywhere in the book. This book takes place in the United States towards the end of the Vietnam War. The main character Matt Pin, is from Vietnam but has to move to the States because of the war and the toll that it was taking on his country. During the novel Matt has to overcome hatred by his classmates in order to achieve his goals, and he has to overcome the fact that he may never see his family or his country ever again. This book truly gives you insight of what it was like to be a child from Vietnam in the states during the war.

One of the the best parts of the book is when Matt has to overcome bullying my members of his baseball team. Members of his team will usually say something like,”my brother died because of you,” or hang derogatory pictures on his locker to not let him forget where he came from. One of the main parts that Ann Burg stresses in this book is perseverance. Matt is a great example of perseverance because of the obstacles that he has to overcome to do what he loves, and in this case it is playing on his baseball team. Matt is one of the best players on the team but some of the older kids still do not like him because of where he used to live, even though …show more content…
When readers first pick it up, the first thing that they may notice is the title, “All the Broken Pieces.” What I think this means is that Matt has a lot of reasons in his life where he could complain. He has a lot of pieces to a complete picture that are broken and will be very hard to fix. Towards the end of book Matt starts to realize how lucky he is that he was able to be adopted, so much so that comments that people make do not even faze him anymore. Matt begins to envision his own picture and starts to build the pieces to be able to complete that