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

... Yeah it's going on daily.. ^^ && after this I'll be off to work.

Monkey Bridge
Lan Cao

5* Comments:
5-I figured out that Mai also just to live in MA as well before. This is being mention while Mai and her mother is getting their fortune told to them by a fortune teller. Vietnamese people believe in all those stuff. I find it very related to my mom because when she was young in Vietnam she also had her fortune told and suprisingly it was all correct. What can I say, pretty cool huhs? :]
4-I kind of have a better idea how the Vietnam war started now, since Mai is kind of talking about the past. The north tried to take over the south pf Vietnam or something. My dad had been in the Vietnam war along side with the Americans. He always tells me some stories but they're always so confusing since it's the past.
3-After in the begining of chapter 9, Mai is implying that her grandfather, Baba Quan has seen Saigon (also known as Ho Chi Minh City) falls to its feet because of the terrible war. She was so descriptive about this part, though not from her eyes point of view but her grandfather. And then she soon started asking herself all these questions of where he is.
2-Once again Mai somehow started to read her moter's dairy again, inside so far was her mother worries about Mai and her love for Mai. Her mother wrote that when she was 17 was already married for 2 years. Though Mai wants to leave home to go to college so her mother seems of it as not traditonal but the right way for Mai to go.
1-Again Thanh is telling us how the things Mai believes are totally different from what Thanh wants her to believe. Mai learns about genetics and everything form science and facts from learning at school however her mother thinks its all karma because she experienced karma all her life.

4*Questions:
4-Who was the fortune teller? Why did Mrs.Bay say she was very good? How did she even know?
3-How did Mai feel after reading her mother's dairy?
2-Did Mai and her mtoher really believe in what the fortune teller was telling them?
1- Is Mai as worried as Mama is about Baba Quan?

3*Vocabulary:
3-Inadvertently: unintentional.
2-Protuberance:
the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.2.a protuberant part or thing; projection or bulge.
1-Exodus: a going out; a departure or emigration, usually of a large number of people.

2*Literary Terms:
2-Metaphor: P 164, Mai's grandfather's last day in Saigon lingered like a lantern on the grap motionless night.
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1*Overview:
1- In this section, the fortune teller came and talked to Mai and her mother. Mai then recall the times with her grandfather and wonder how he is doing. After Mai starts to read her mother's dairy.