Monkey Bridge Chapter 1

5 Comments
1] White is the color of mourning, the standard color for ghosts, bones, and funerals. (In Vietnam)
2] The Character has reoccurring thoughts about the attacks when she was in Saigon, Vietnam.
3] She is in a hospital in the U.S.
4] Bobbie was her best f riend from high school.
5] She was staying at Arlington Hospital.

4 Questions
1] Where was her mother?
2] Does she know why she's in the hospital?
3] Was the events in her memories in Vietnam from the Vietnam War?
4] Where was her father?

3 Vocabulary
1] Percussive: of or pertaining to or characterized by percussion.
2] Languidly: lacking in vigor or vitality.
3] Immense: vast; huge; very great.

2 Literary Terms
1] "The bedsheet white of the hallway was an anxious white I knew by heart." - Personification.
2] "As if the tears were always ppooled in readiness beaneath my eyes." -Simile

1 Overview Sentence
1] In the beginning, Mai Nguyen talks about being in an American Hospital and about her mother who was burned severely on her face years ago while cooking.