#5 Roar 5:4:3:2:1

HAHA. Here it is again! (:
Have fun! While I'm still dizzing and dazzing all over my computer....
( I just woke up. ^^;;' hope you don't mind!)


Monkey Bridge

Lan Cao


5* Comments:
5- Once again we get into the fatasy asian typical stuff, like astrological signs and zodiac asian animals sign(?!?). Anyhow, if you were born on a specific year of an animal, there's 12 of them and at a certain time... its suppose that your future will be good or not. (superficial). I was born on the year of the rooster so my dad usually brags about it in front of his friends.......^^ that's just a little connection to Monkey Bridge since Thanh and Mai was talking about it as well. Mai was born on the year of the Buffalo at 8:15 so her mother said it was bad luck.
4- Here we get back to Thanh's condition, she seems to be doing better. Mai tells us what's wrong with her mother, she has CVA which the left of the brian is neglected and can't be used.
3- It's great that Thanh has a friend as well, Mrs.Bay which also keep her company and it seems that they are big fans of traditional medicine and not the western/modern medicine.
2-So Mai is looking forward into going to a good college. She had a interview with Amy Layton, she seemed very nervous, and they most talked about Vietnam as it seems.
1- HA, I just notice that there is no fixed "I" or "you" in Vietnamese, it all depends on who you're talking to and addressing that. I've always thought about that when people ask me how to tranlate... I would never understand, good things I had a better understanding now. Thanks for the clarification Lan Cao!



4* Questions:
4- Who really was Mary Lyon?
3- Is Thanh's mother able to be dismissed form the hospital at times?
2- Is Mrs. Bay from Vietnam too, how are they able to communicate?
1- Why are asians so superficial? x)



3* Vocabulary:
3- Austere: severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding.
2- Concocted: to prepare or make by combining ingredients, esp. in cookery.
1- Luminous: radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.

2*Literary Terms:
2- Allusion: Pg 144 where Mai was referring to Mama (Thanh)'s American Dream and its becoming like the modern version of the trung sisters.(not so sure what that is.. O.O)
1- Direct characterization: There's plenty here, : When Mai was describing the details of Amy Layton when she first arrived for Mai's interview into the college.

1* Overview
1- This section tells about Mai and Thanh's condition alot, also how Mai is going to be in college soon.