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