The verse form carries highly charged emotions and heavy content with elegiac simplicity. Graceful symmetries between brother and brother, father and son, past and present, guilt and forgiveness shed light on the era and the individual. In recognizing the analogous suffering endured by others touched by the war, Matt begins to resolve the conflicts of his spirit. Through the efforts of two veterans, Matt begins to understand that his mother gave him away because she loved him, not because he was culpable in the crippling of his brother. He suffers deeply from prejudice when he tries out for the school baseball team and from his misunderstanding of both his biological and adoptive families’ motives. Two years later, he remains haunted by a past in which his soldier father abandoned him, his mother gave him up and his brother was maimed before his eyes. Afterward Matt, an Amerasian, is adopted by a loving American family. Because of Sophie, Francine finds herself worrying about things that never bothered her before: the atom bomb, free speech, Communists, the blacklist.and deciding, for the first time, that she wants to be heard.Matt Pin’s story, told in first-person verse, opens with the evacuation of refugees near the end of the Vietnam War. The nuns think Sophie is a bad influence on Francine. And she's happy to be Francine's best friend. She not only doesn't care about getting in trouble, she actually seems to be looking for it. Fearless, articulate, and passionate, Sophie questions authority and protests injustice. That is, until Sophie Bowman transfers into her class at All Saints School for Girls. She's comfortable following her father's advice: "Don't get involved". In reality, she's a "pink and freckled" 13-year-old, and she doesn't always speak up because she's afraid she'll get in trouble. She wishes she really were a movie star, brave and glamorous and always ready to say the right thing. Francine lives down the street from a Hollywood film studio, adores screen dreamboat Montgomery Clift, and sometimes sees her home life as a scene from a movie: Dinner at the Greens.
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