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

-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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