Piecing Me Together

Piecing Me Together

by

Renée Watson

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Piecing Me Together: Chapter 56 Summary & Analysis

Summary
Analysis
Jade prints off the photos she took earlier, leaving all of them whole except for the ones of the officers. She cries for Mom’s swollen ankles and her jar of coins. She cries for what happened with Ms. Weber, the boys at Dairy Queen, and the incident at the mall. She cries for every black person assaulted or murdered by police. Jade writes their names on top of a background of “black sadness.”
Jade cries because her race—like that of so many other black victims of harassment or violence—puts her at a higher risk of experiencing violence or discrimination like this. She wants to celebrate it and think of it as something beautiful, but it’s also an aspect of her identity that puts her in danger.
Themes
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