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

:D ALmost over, haha. Enjoying my honey tea while doing a roar post. It's decent morning sunny and bright outside. Seems super cozy! ^^



Monkey Bridge
Lan Cao





5*Comments:
5- The story that Thanh wrote in her dairy about the Japanese girl that did not obey her mother and did the opposite of everything her mother wanted and in the end turned into stone by the gods was really good!. I think Thanh also thinks that way the bond between a mother and daughter is always the closest and to Thanh it's not only that childern are suppose to obey their parents but to understand their wishes. Thanh loves Mai a whole, I can tell.
4- Thanh later descibes how her childhood memories with the rice fields and everything and she regretted that Mai never had the chance to experience that because Mai was born during the war and they were refugees. Thanh then continues to detail about her childhood life until she was married .
3- I've noticed that Lan Cao often uses imagery while describing the setting and location of the stories. Like when Thanh is talking about the horizon and now Mai is also talking about it.
2- Mai fianlly tells her mother than she and Bobbie tried to find Baba Quan, and that they were driving all the way to Canada to give a phone call to Vietnam to find Baba Quan's location.
1- All of a sudden, Mai was crying in the middle of the night and that woke her up. For no reason she begins to think back aout the minor mistake, one wrong move. I think everything that had been mentioned in the novel before so, is hurting her now.

4*Question
4- Why didn't Thanh want Mai to call Baba Quan when she was almost in Canada?
3- Why is Mai crying by herself? Is she sad about her mother?
2- Is Thanh released from the hospital yet? She seems to do fine right now.
1- In Thanh's dairy did she really write in english or Vietnamese and had it translated?

3* Vocabulary:
3-Relinquished: to renounce or surrender
2-Inclination: a disposition or bent, esp. of the mind or will; a liking or preference.
1-Palpitation: an unusually or abnormally rapid or violent beating of the heart.

2*Literary Terms:
2-Imagery- Pg 174 When Thanh is describing the horizon and the setting.
1-Anthropomorphism: Pg 174 When Thanh is describing when they bend their backs into the letter S like Vietnam.

1* Overview:
1- This section that I've read is about Thanh's diary and her childhood memories and her regrets of not letting Mai see how wonderful it is. Afterward Mai confess to her mother about her and Bobbie going to Canada to call Baba Quan.