Characters
The narrator of our book.
Who is Matt Pin?
The name of the airlift that brought Vietnamese babies to America.
What is Operation Babylift?
The job Matt's adopted dad has.
What is being a doctor?
The reason why Matt's little brother from Vietnam is deformed.
What is stepping on a landmine?
Jeff lets his music speak for him.
What is personification?
The boy who stepped on a land mine.
Who is Matt's biological little brother?
The name of the war that Matt grew up in.
What is the Vietnam War?
Matt's Vietnamese name.
What Bui Doi?
The reason why Rob hates Matt so much.
What is his older brother died in Viet Nam?
His eyes are angry bullets.
What is a metaphor?
The person who teaches Matt to play the piano.
Who is Jeff?
The memory Matt has when Jeff wants to talk about Viet Nam at the diner.
What is the flashback to his little brother stepping on a land mine?
The job Jeff had in Viet Nam.
What is Operation Dustoff?
The reason why Matt thinks his adopted parents will send him back to Vietnam.
What is Matt is having night terrors and they think they can't help him?
rain, like a thousand scattered bullets, bounces around me.
What is a simile?
The person who takes over as coach for the baseball team when Coach Robeson gets sick.
Who is Coach Williams (Chris Williams)?
The place Matt goes and meets soldiers who served in the Vietnam War.
What is the Viet Nam Veterans support group?
The song Matt's dad sings in the car.
What is Stayin Alive?
The reason Matt plays with his food at the dinner for Coach Robeson.
What is Matt doesn't want to think about the things being said about Coach Robeson?
The way that baseball danced, no one could get a hit off him.
What is personification?
The bullies in the story.
Who are Rob and Billy?
The team building activity Coach Williams makes the players do during baseball practice.
What is find sports equipment scattered on the baseball field with one person blindfolded and the other guiding them?
This is what Matt's adopted mom does when he has night terrors.
What is she sings to him?
The reason Rob said his brother died because of Matt.
What is Rob's brother went to Viet Nam and died there?
Sometimes my fingers just fly over the keys.
What is hyperbole?