Monkey Bridge Chapter 3

5 Comments
1] Mai and Bobbie are on a roadtrip to a place where they have never been.
2] Mai feels uncomfortable about leaving her mother behind at the hospital.
3] They were headed to Canada, in search of a way to try to contact her grandfather in Vietnam.
4] Mai feels unwanted in the U.S., because of what happened in the war. She feels as though shes a reminder of a war the whole country was trying to forget.
5] Mai felt nervous about crossing the border and she thinks that they'll get caught.

4 Questions
1] Did Canada offer shelter for refuges who sought relief from war? Would they accept Bobbie and Mai?
2] What would happen if they were caught crossing the borders?
3] Why couldn't they call he grandfather in Vietnam from the U.S.?
4] How did her mother get a blood clot in her brain?

3 Vocabulary
1] Cozied: Snug, comfortable and warm.
2] Topography: the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality.
3] Permanence: the condition or quality of being permanent; perpetual or continued existence.

2 Literary Terms
1] "Watching a uniformed man tap spekcs of cinder from his cigarette like red warning lights flashed into the dusk of winter." - Simile.
2] "I could only see danger looming in the land, over there." -Personification.

1 Overview Sentence
Mai and Bobbie are driving to Canada so they can find a way to contact her grandfather from Vietnam.