5_ Comments
- Someone who had once saved an American special forces until may be given some special treatment. Mai Grandfather didn't had American connection.
- Uncle Michael told the story about what happened in the monkey bridge and Mai face slammed shut, that their were no swell of emotion and no tangible reaction she could of hold.
- Mai and her Uncle Michael wanted to now what happend to Michael grandfather.
- Mai is emotional of what Micheal told her about the Monkey Bridge, that one night, she woke her self by her crying.
- The American dream could be worked with ardent criminality.
4_ Question
- What was the story of Monkey Bridge was so important to Mai and Uncle Michael?
- Why doesn't the grandfather don't have Amrica connection if Mai and he mother weren't citizen when they got to the United State?
- What is the meaning of Monkey Bridge?
- Why does Mai say that the American Dream, you must be ivolve in criminal activities?
3_ Vocabulary
- diagonally = connecting two nonadjacnt angle or vertices of a polygon, as a straigh line.
- sputtering = to make explosive poppings
- pectations = bing expert in something, high goals
2_ Literary terms
- could explode like a fantasy coddled much too long
- my eyes smarted from the chill of the brisk evening air as patch by patch.
1_ Overview
- This part of the novel is about whn Michael told Mai about the Monky Bridge and the effect that she felt.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Monkey Bridge
5_ Comments
- Their is a woman (who might predict the future) who told Mai that her father is not dead, he is somewhere out in the world. Then te woman is going to interpretation to the next step and she want Mai to help her.
-Mai mother world was kneeling in front of an altar.
- Mai grandfather had one more day to live in his own country, village.
-Mai was thinking and making question about her mother and grandfather about wht would happen to them?
- Mai was beckoning her mother room.
4_ Question
- Why did the woman needed mai to help her interpretation?
- Wht does Mai means when she say" mom worl was kneeling in front of an altar"?
- Why did the Grandfather left his land?
- What was Mai worried about her mom and her grandfather
3_ Vocabulary
- beckoning = to signal or summon, as by nodding or waving.
- obliging = to required or constrain, as by law, command, conscience, or force of necessity.
- maculately = strained
2_ Lterary Terms
- My grandfather last day in Saigon lingered like a lantern on a gray motionless night.
- rows of cards shimmered like a lost city at night.
1_ Overview
- This part of the novel is about Mai grandfather moving from the land he always loved
- Their is a woman (who might predict the future) who told Mai that her father is not dead, he is somewhere out in the world. Then te woman is going to interpretation to the next step and she want Mai to help her.
-Mai mother world was kneeling in front of an altar.
- Mai grandfather had one more day to live in his own country, village.
-Mai was thinking and making question about her mother and grandfather about wht would happen to them?
- Mai was beckoning her mother room.
4_ Question
- Why did the woman needed mai to help her interpretation?
- Wht does Mai means when she say" mom worl was kneeling in front of an altar"?
- Why did the Grandfather left his land?
- What was Mai worried about her mom and her grandfather
3_ Vocabulary
- beckoning = to signal or summon, as by nodding or waving.
- obliging = to required or constrain, as by law, command, conscience, or force of necessity.
- maculately = strained
2_ Lterary Terms
- My grandfather last day in Saigon lingered like a lantern on a gray motionless night.
- rows of cards shimmered like a lost city at night.
1_ Overview
- This part of the novel is about Mai grandfather moving from the land he always loved
Monkey Bridge
5_ Comments
- Mrs. Bay was talking to Mai mom about joining into a joint venture.
- Mai mom is trying to work herself into the land of the living, working a lo't to forfill her dreams and the real life.
- The apartment of where Mai and her mom lived was becoming an illuminated glow. their was a new invasion of neiborhood from a building.
- Mai wanted to say that America hate losers, tat they don't want to have anything to do with Mai race of people.
- On April 30, 1975, the North Vietnamese swept throught Mai street and sh was watching from the yard.
4_ Questions
- Why does Mrs. Bay wanted Mai mom to be a venture/ talking into it?
- What is the purpose of Mai mom working to hard and working herslf to the living?
- Why were Vietmese was in the streets?
- What does Mai mean when she said "our apartment was becoming an illuminated glow?
3_ Vocabulary
- communism = a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common.
- interjection = a word or form of speech thrown in to express emotions or feelings.
- obscured = so faintly perceptible as to lack clear delineation.
2_ Literary Term
- spirited like a swordswoman chasing dawn and dusk from east to west.
- She glowed with enthusiasm as she expained the rule to me.
1_ Overview
- this part of the novel is about her mom working and the Vietmese sweeping the streets.
- Mrs. Bay was talking to Mai mom about joining into a joint venture.
- Mai mom is trying to work herself into the land of the living, working a lo't to forfill her dreams and the real life.
- The apartment of where Mai and her mom lived was becoming an illuminated glow. their was a new invasion of neiborhood from a building.
- Mai wanted to say that America hate losers, tat they don't want to have anything to do with Mai race of people.
- On April 30, 1975, the North Vietnamese swept throught Mai street and sh was watching from the yard.
4_ Questions
- Why does Mrs. Bay wanted Mai mom to be a venture/ talking into it?
- What is the purpose of Mai mom working to hard and working herslf to the living?
- Why were Vietmese was in the streets?
- What does Mai mean when she said "our apartment was becoming an illuminated glow?
3_ Vocabulary
- communism = a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common.
- interjection = a word or form of speech thrown in to express emotions or feelings.
- obscured = so faintly perceptible as to lack clear delineation.
2_ Literary Term
- spirited like a swordswoman chasing dawn and dusk from east to west.
- She glowed with enthusiasm as she expained the rule to me.
1_ Overview
- this part of the novel is about her mom working and the Vietmese sweeping the streets.
Monkey Bridge
5_ Comments
- Mai trained the eagle-claw style of fighting and was practicing all kinds of terrains. They wer preparing for the thrust and parry of all- out guerrilla warfare.
- Mai knew that the Mongol (the enemy) would and can be hunted so, she taughtherself to hunt Mongols.
-Mai was having an interview with Mr and Mrs. MacMahon. They were telling her question about her life but, when they asked Mai where she lived, she told them but not what was happening.
-Mai was taking a tour around the Campus.
- One day, when Mai and hr mom was relased fro the rehabiliation center, she found te apartment solidy sealed from the outside. The apartment was different from usual apartments.
4_ Questions
- Why didn't Mai told what was happening in her village?
- Why did she trained to hunt for Mongols, and was the training pace Mai was in was part of the military?
- What college is Mai going?
- Did Mai bcam part of the war in her village?
3_ Vocabulary
- confabulatory = to talk casually, to chat
- contemplation = the act or state of contemplating
- entrepreneursn = a person who organizes and manages any enterprices
2_ Literary terms
- I felt like a borrowed name, on loan to satisfy my teachers insitence on rhyme and order.
- dormitories and cncrete building that rose like geometric blocks from a foundation of asphalt and cement.
1_ Overview
- This is about her training to hunt for Mongols and her application for collage.
- Mai trained the eagle-claw style of fighting and was practicing all kinds of terrains. They wer preparing for the thrust and parry of all- out guerrilla warfare.
- Mai knew that the Mongol (the enemy) would and can be hunted so, she taughtherself to hunt Mongols.
-Mai was having an interview with Mr and Mrs. MacMahon. They were telling her question about her life but, when they asked Mai where she lived, she told them but not what was happening.
-Mai was taking a tour around the Campus.
- One day, when Mai and hr mom was relased fro the rehabiliation center, she found te apartment solidy sealed from the outside. The apartment was different from usual apartments.
4_ Questions
- Why didn't Mai told what was happening in her village?
- Why did she trained to hunt for Mongols, and was the training pace Mai was in was part of the military?
- What college is Mai going?
- Did Mai bcam part of the war in her village?
3_ Vocabulary
- confabulatory = to talk casually, to chat
- contemplation = the act or state of contemplating
- entrepreneursn = a person who organizes and manages any enterprices
2_ Literary terms
- I felt like a borrowed name, on loan to satisfy my teachers insitence on rhyme and order.
- dormitories and cncrete building that rose like geometric blocks from a foundation of asphalt and cement.
1_ Overview
- This is about her training to hunt for Mongols and her application for collage.
Monkey Bridge
5_ Commnets
- Mai and her uncle Michael were having quality time together . They were seeing a movie, watching small towns Pennsylvania boys leave an ordinary steel- mining existence to figth in Vietnam, having tme together. When they were having time together, Mai was telling question about killing people.
- Oneday, Mai notices sounds i the bushes and they were all on guard. When they were getting closer and closer and they realize that its was a child, a child that was about to die and Mai hold her uncle.
- Her uncle and her felt their wer danger when they passed/ walked throught the outskirts of the village.
- When Mai went to the other side of the village, she was prepare. She had the equipment is she gt lost but, she had a sense of fear and she was scare of whats she's about to face.
- She was having a college interview and she had an "opponent". The interview was to be a battle field.
4_ Question
- Why did Mai and her uncle Michael went to the outskirts of the village?
- Was she in her village or in the unted state?
- Why was the collega interview was a battle field?
- Did the child die? (the child that Mai was talking about in the bush)
3_ Vocabulary
- ravines = a deep narrow o gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.
- feces = waste matter discharged from the intenstine.
- deliberately = to weight in the mind.
2_ literary terms
- Like a scene out of a movie, a shadowy figure in human form drifting on a gray wisp of the floated from a cliff top toward us.
- the rows of spindly pedestrian overpasses that hovered thrity meters or so above a web of canals like a Venice in the topic.
1_ Overview
- This part of the novel is about when Mai and her uncle have time together and the problem in their village.
- Mai and her uncle Michael were having quality time together . They were seeing a movie, watching small towns Pennsylvania boys leave an ordinary steel- mining existence to figth in Vietnam, having tme together. When they were having time together, Mai was telling question about killing people.
- Oneday, Mai notices sounds i the bushes and they were all on guard. When they were getting closer and closer and they realize that its was a child, a child that was about to die and Mai hold her uncle.
- Her uncle and her felt their wer danger when they passed/ walked throught the outskirts of the village.
- When Mai went to the other side of the village, she was prepare. She had the equipment is she gt lost but, she had a sense of fear and she was scare of whats she's about to face.
- She was having a college interview and she had an "opponent". The interview was to be a battle field.
4_ Question
- Why did Mai and her uncle Michael went to the outskirts of the village?
- Was she in her village or in the unted state?
- Why was the collega interview was a battle field?
- Did the child die? (the child that Mai was talking about in the bush)
3_ Vocabulary
- ravines = a deep narrow o gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.
- feces = waste matter discharged from the intenstine.
- deliberately = to weight in the mind.
2_ literary terms
- Like a scene out of a movie, a shadowy figure in human form drifting on a gray wisp of the floated from a cliff top toward us.
- the rows of spindly pedestrian overpasses that hovered thrity meters or so above a web of canals like a Venice in the topic.
1_ Overview
- This part of the novel is about when Mai and her uncle have time together and the problem in their village.
Monkey Bridge
5_Comments
- Mai mother told her that she could help the family because Mai is the Manager and her father is dead.
- They are going to move into a new apartment but Mai mother told her that she needs to stand up against the American if she wants to have anything.
- They went into a new country but Mai mother didn’t felt safe because their were danger everywhere.
- Mai wish is to be a Vietnamese warrior, a fearless, strong warrior.
- Mai want to be a warrior so, she is tricking her mom because her mom wanted her to go to collage in America when they arrived.
4_ Questions
- Why doesn’t Mai tell the truth of being a great warrior?
- Why did they move to America if the mom thought it wasn’t safe for them?
- Why does Mai hesitates to take responsibility?
- Does Mai experience more things than she did in her country?
3_ Vocabulary
- relinquished = To retire from; give up or abandon.
- karmic = The total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person's existence, regarded as determining the person's destiny.
- decipher = To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.
2_ Literary Terms
- I was like Kiki, my pet bird in Saigon
- My mother, like the country herself, was obsessed with Karma.
1_ Overview
- This part of the novel is about them moving to America and knowing how the place is like.
- Mai mother told her that she could help the family because Mai is the Manager and her father is dead.
- They are going to move into a new apartment but Mai mother told her that she needs to stand up against the American if she wants to have anything.
- They went into a new country but Mai mother didn’t felt safe because their were danger everywhere.
- Mai wish is to be a Vietnamese warrior, a fearless, strong warrior.
- Mai want to be a warrior so, she is tricking her mom because her mom wanted her to go to collage in America when they arrived.
4_ Questions
- Why doesn’t Mai tell the truth of being a great warrior?
- Why did they move to America if the mom thought it wasn’t safe for them?
- Why does Mai hesitates to take responsibility?
- Does Mai experience more things than she did in her country?
3_ Vocabulary
- relinquished = To retire from; give up or abandon.
- karmic = The total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person's existence, regarded as determining the person's destiny.
- decipher = To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.
2_ Literary Terms
- I was like Kiki, my pet bird in Saigon
- My mother, like the country herself, was obsessed with Karma.
1_ Overview
- This part of the novel is about them moving to America and knowing how the place is like.
Monkey Bridge
5_ Comments
- The area that Mai was living, their were a lot of gun shooting and the hospital had the smell of blood.
- Mai grandfather was born in Ba Xuyen, a rice- growing province in the Mekong Delta and he also was a traditional man who never live his village and don’t like to travel.
- Mai mother was ill and her family took her to the hospital. In a few days, she felt better.
- Mai touch her Green card in her jacket and felt the plastic protective cover between her fingers.
- Mai mom told her that the Mongols army was too strong to oppose head-on so her mom use to say that “we sat by the backyard bamboo grove in Saigon. Everyone painted the leaf of each tree, sending a message”.
4_ Questions
- Why doesn’t they move to a different location especially the grandfather when there is danger going on?
- How did the mother got ill? And from what?
- The Mongols are their opponent? Are they from the same race as Mai?
- What was the point painting the leafs to sent a message?
3_ Vocabulary
- Paranoia = A psychotic disorder characterized by systematized delusions, especially of persecution or grandeur, in the absence of other personality disorders.
- Grinned = to draw back the lips so as to show the teeth, as a snarling dog or a person in pain.
- Communist = a person who is regarded as supporting politically leftist or subversive causes.
2_ Literary terms
- The vast vacant shy was shrinking fast, closing in on us like the gray metallic roof of an airless bomb shelter a burnt yolk.
- She was squeezing a rubber toy shape like a bowling pin with a round mouth and two round eyes.
1_ Overview
- Its about the life they are having and the events that are happening.
- The area that Mai was living, their were a lot of gun shooting and the hospital had the smell of blood.
- Mai grandfather was born in Ba Xuyen, a rice- growing province in the Mekong Delta and he also was a traditional man who never live his village and don’t like to travel.
- Mai mother was ill and her family took her to the hospital. In a few days, she felt better.
- Mai touch her Green card in her jacket and felt the plastic protective cover between her fingers.
- Mai mom told her that the Mongols army was too strong to oppose head-on so her mom use to say that “we sat by the backyard bamboo grove in Saigon. Everyone painted the leaf of each tree, sending a message”.
4_ Questions
- Why doesn’t they move to a different location especially the grandfather when there is danger going on?
- How did the mother got ill? And from what?
- The Mongols are their opponent? Are they from the same race as Mai?
- What was the point painting the leafs to sent a message?
3_ Vocabulary
- Paranoia = A psychotic disorder characterized by systematized delusions, especially of persecution or grandeur, in the absence of other personality disorders.
- Grinned = to draw back the lips so as to show the teeth, as a snarling dog or a person in pain.
- Communist = a person who is regarded as supporting politically leftist or subversive causes.
2_ Literary terms
- The vast vacant shy was shrinking fast, closing in on us like the gray metallic roof of an airless bomb shelter a burnt yolk.
- She was squeezing a rubber toy shape like a bowling pin with a round mouth and two round eyes.
1_ Overview
- Its about the life they are having and the events that are happening.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Monkey Bridge
5_ Comments
- Mrs. Bay was advising her friend to tell the American do not brig anything with them and she advice to keep what you see behind your eyes and save what you think under your tounge.
- Around the south of Vietnamese colonel shot himself and the mom told Mai that is a ome( a bad omen).
-Mai says that bedrooms are dngerous places, that her mom room was really dark and when they went to sleep, Mai would sleep beside her.
- Mai is tougthing the untouchable part of her nightlife.
- Her mom writes he life and this is the first time mai is able to see what she is writing
4_ Question
- What does Mai means whn she said " I'm touching the untachable"?
- Why does mrs. Bay give advice to people?
- Does Mrs. Bay have something against the Americans?
- Does Mai hate the silencewhen she went to hr moms bedroo?
3_ Literary terms
- Scendants = to be scare
2_ literary terms
- intrlopers lime me going to unearth othr people secrets
- the sound of water fowing through the pipes settles like a hazy film over the stillness of five minutes past midnight.
1_ Overview
- this part of the story about the way her mother rights and the way she fet close to her mom.
- Mrs. Bay was advising her friend to tell the American do not brig anything with them and she advice to keep what you see behind your eyes and save what you think under your tounge.
- Around the south of Vietnamese colonel shot himself and the mom told Mai that is a ome( a bad omen).
-Mai says that bedrooms are dngerous places, that her mom room was really dark and when they went to sleep, Mai would sleep beside her.
- Mai is tougthing the untouchable part of her nightlife.
- Her mom writes he life and this is the first time mai is able to see what she is writing
4_ Question
- What does Mai means whn she said " I'm touching the untachable"?
- Why does mrs. Bay give advice to people?
- Does Mrs. Bay have something against the Americans?
- Does Mai hate the silencewhen she went to hr moms bedroo?
3_ Literary terms
-Instinctive = pertaining to o o the nature of instinct
- Ostentatious = intended to attract notice an impress others- Scendants = to be scare
2_ literary terms
- intrlopers lime me going to unearth othr people secrets
- the sound of water fowing through the pipes settles like a hazy film over the stillness of five minutes past midnight.
1_ Overview
- this part of the story about the way her mother rights and the way she fet close to her mom.
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