Book Review: A Million Little Pieces

I have read your book A Million Little Pieces, and I was wondering if I can turn your book into a play. Make an adaptation of your book. I believe it would be great as a play because many schools preform plays. It would be an amazing way to education kids about drugs, and what drug addicts around the world are going through in similar cases to yours Mr. Frey. It’s an opportunity for students to watch their peers acted out and put their selves in someone else’s shoes. They would develop an impact of engagement to the character they would be assigned to play or be.
The students that would be watching might also connect with your story more seeing it played out by other students. Students are going through what you went through drugs or emotionally
(para. 6). There’s many more examples but I choice these three because you overcame them in the story. There’s a part in the story where a character named Roy tries to get you into trouble about dirty toilets and you defended yourself; I would like to add that part in the play. “Roy steps forward. You didn’t clean the Group Toilets this morning. I laugh. Roy looks at Lincoln. Lincoln speaks. What’s so funny? His dumb-ass attempt to get me in trouble…I’m not cleaning your fucking toilets, Tough Guy. “(Frey, 2003, p. 136-138). Mr. Frey, you stood up to your bully Roy and was taking matters into your own hands. Even though it was a bad tempt to get you into trouble you stood your ground took what they had to say to you and you were determined not to clean the toilets again. If students could see this in their school, and on their stage they would have the guts to tell someone that’s bullying them or always trying to get them in trouble also, to back off. I probably wouldn’t change this scene of the story for the play so it could be more impactful to the students because some of the students are being force to clean the toilets by other students as a joke. Some students may have other students clean the toilets with their heads, presuming students forcing another kids head into the toilet as a joke as well. Wither that part happens or not
Your story in a play form could save a young life who is feeling disconnected from the world and is using drugs because, “It’s a way of coping.” (NSPCC, 2015). Drugs are killing the young generation, and if a strong story as yours written as a play could prevent that, then why not? It would give students a better understanding of what they would go through if they stay on their path of destruction. Seeing A Million Little Pieces performed would change some student’s minds about drugs before they get too corrupted to turn back. It would help them realize it’s not the kind of mess they want to get themselves into; for the ones who haven’t started drugs. For the others there is a place they could go if they need desperate help to stop their addiction. They aren’t the only ones out there that are feeling a certain way and using drugs to escape. So they don’t have to feel like it’s them against the world; even the character James met a few drug addicts in the rehab center that had similar issues like him. They turned out to be good friends and helped each other when one of them was at their all-time low. He was going to commit suicide by going back to doing drugs. His friend railed him back in telling him he would stop him and keep bring him back. This is a part I would keep in the play because it’s meaningful. Leonard said to James, “Your choices are made by the shit that controls you and by the shit you can’t quit. You walk out of here and that shit’s