Monkey Bridge Chapter 4

5 Comments

1] Mai could sense danger lurking everywhere she go.
2] When Mai and her mother first came to the U.S, they lived in a apartment complex in Falls Church, Virginia. It was a beat up, rundown apartment.
3] Mai's mother believed in omens from antennas and inanimate objects while her father believed in omens from action and inaction, maneurvering and mismaneuvering of political life.
4] Ho Chi Minh city was actually named after a person.
5] For Mai and her mothers first winter, they had to huddle up hear a open oven to keep warm.

4 Questions
1] What is Mai's fathers theory about "one wrong move"?
2] What started World War II? What were the conflicts?
3] What did Mai see omens in?
4] What would happen if they were to be caught crossing the borders?


3 Vocabulary
1] Refrain: to abstain from an impulse to say or do something.
2] Unpropitious: Unfavorable; inauspicious.
3] Ominous: portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious.

2 Literary Terms
1] "The sun, dull and splattered like a burnt yolk, was hiding low, snagged behind a mass of clouds so thick and dull that even the lush cedar-green looked a sludgy olive." -Simile/Metaphor.
2] "Imprints of trees pressed themselves against the windshield, black silhouettes that hung like bleak skeletons." -Simile.

1 Overview Sentence
Bobbie and Mai are still traveling to Canada but Mai is having a self conflict about crossing the border because she feels that danger is lurking amongst them.