Monday, April 27, 2009

Monkey Bridge: Chapter 8

5 Comments
1] Mai's mother was finally released from the hospital and is at home again.
2] Mai and Bobbie returned back to their apartment to see her mother burning incenses and preparing a feast.
3] Mai's mother often is confused. One minute shes calm and peaceful, the next she imagines herself in the middle of the streets in Viet Nam.
4] After Mai's mother was released from the rehabilitation center, she hasn't mentioned a word about her grandfather.
5] Mai is lost between what is right for her and what she thinks is right for her mother.

4 Questions
1] Who is Mrs. Bay?
2] Why is she mentioned so many times but yet shes so unknown?
3] What is a hui?
4] Is Contufabulatory a real word?

3 Vocabulary
1] Hodgepodge: a heterogeneous mixture; jumble.
2] Disembodied: to divest (a soul, spirit, etc.) of a body.
3] Neurological: the science of the nerves and the nervous system, esp. of the diseases affecting them.

2 Literary terms
1] "I wanted to break through the membrane that kept us apart and plunge headfirst into a prenatal space where I could reach my mother's true thoughts." -Metaphor.
2] "Our apartment was generating some serious energy." -Metaphor.

1 Overview Sentence
Mai's mother finally returned from the rehabilitation center and now things are going fine for now.

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