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.