Sunday, April 12, 2009

5|4|3|2|1 The Monkey Bridge pages 1-29

5 Comments
  • In the beggining of the chapter what seems to be rembering when she was a volunteer in Saigon year 1968 but she was in Arlington Hospital 1978 ten years later.
  • The Saigon Hospital brought back bad memories for her and she felt an hurried chill in joints , and a slowing moving red that smoalldered in a floating ether of dull, gray smoke.
  • Tears were brought to her eyes as she rembered a scattering of gun shots that tore though the plaster walls.
  • The American Flag, floqing sky high from a sturdy iron pole, that snapped in the wind and that is what let the character that know that they were in Arlington Hospital.
  • The Characters mother had been in the Hospital, she has avoided looking at her mothers face because it was burned from a kitchen fire five years ago

4 Questions

  • Why did the Saigon Hospital bring suchh horrible memories for her?
  • WHat happened to her Grandfather?
  • Does she or did she have any siblings?
  • Is she happy she is now in America?

3 Vocabulary

  • smoldered - To burn with little smoke and no flame.
  • Converged- to tend to meet in a point or line; incline toward each other, as lines that are not parallel.
  • Unfurling - To spread or open (something) out or become spread or opened out.

2 Literary Terms

  • Metaphor
  • Alliteration

1 Overview Sentance

In this chapter she was rembering things that happened to her in Vietnam before she left and her friend Bobbie kept thinking she left Vietnam when she was a baby but she truly left when she was a teenager.

2 comments:

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