All The Broken Pieces Character Analysis
All The Broken Pieces The story “All the Broken Pieces” is about a twelve year old boy named Matt who is struggling from his nightmares. Matt is a Vietnamese child, his mother gave him away when he was 10. Matt is can not stop wondering why his mom gave him up and not his brother. He is also wondering when his American parents will go back to git his brother or give Matt back to his mother. Matt is trying to get through but is still trying to figure out whats going on. Matt joins a baseball team because he used to play back in Vietnam. There is a kid on his baseball team that Matt does not get along with because his brother was killed in the war from the Vietnamese people. The kids did not get along until their coach made them work together.
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President Gerald Ford announced plans to evacuate 2,000 orphans, many of them Amerasian. Operation Baby lift’s first official flight crashed in the rice paddies outside Saigon, killing 144 people, most of them children. South Vietnamese soldiers and civilians gathered at the site, some to help, others to loot the dead. Despite the crash, the evacuation program continued another three weeks
With this tragedy, the mission was severely disrupted, but it continued. Reports differ, but in the 24 hours that followed, possibly some 1,200 children, including 40 of the crash survivors, were evacuated on other planes.
Most of the kids were put in catholic orphanages in the us.
Most of the orphan's got adopted by American, Canadian, and french families.
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The book was mainly about Matt getting adopted and how he came to America from Vietnam. He did a lot of research on what went on during he war and why his family let the Americans take him and be put in an orphanage. The story related to the above in for pretty exact. Matt met a solider who told him that his family let the Americans take him because they didn’t want Matt suffering through the war and being possibly killed. Matt then realized that it was because his family wanted him to have a good
President Gerald Ford announced plans to evacuate 2,000 orphans, many of them Amerasian. Operation Baby lift’s first official flight crashed in the rice paddies outside Saigon, killing 144 people, most of them children. South Vietnamese soldiers and civilians gathered at the site, some to help, others to loot the dead. Despite the crash, the evacuation program continued another three weeks
With this tragedy, the mission was severely disrupted, but it continued. Reports differ, but in the 24 hours that followed, possibly some 1,200 children, including 40 of the crash survivors, were evacuated on other planes.
Most of the kids were put in catholic orphanages in the us.
Most of the orphan's got adopted by American, Canadian, and french families.
Compare
The book was mainly about Matt getting adopted and how he came to America from Vietnam. He did a lot of research on what went on during he war and why his family let the Americans take him and be put in an orphanage. The story related to the above in for pretty exact. Matt met a solider who told him that his family let the Americans take him because they didn’t want Matt suffering through the war and being possibly killed. Matt then realized that it was because his family wanted him to have a good