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.