5|4|3|2|1 pages 94-117

5 Comments

• The beggining of this chapter began with Uncle Michael tellling Mai that the Pam Am flight out of Tan Son Nhut Airport that would head first for Manila, then Guam, then Honolulu, on to Dalls, then finally Hartford then they would drive to their home he told her that she is lucky taking that flight.
• But a few Months later Mai discovered that the only way to be able to leave Vietnam was was the uncharted one by Sea.
• A couple months after Mai left Saigon she saw her future unfold on tevelicions from the family room in Farmington.
• Americans wanted the war in Saigon to end in the book Mai says " I had been watching all this, along with Uncle Michael and Aunt Mary, and like the rest of America, in the safety of our living room'
• Mai saw Saigon falling apart from the television in what now she called her new home and it was a hard thing for her to see where she came from fall apart

4 Questions

• Was Mai upset that she had to move away from Saigon?
• Was Mai's mother happy with moving away from Saigon?
• Did it trouble Mai to see Saigon falling apart from America?
• Do her uncle and aunt feel bad for her?

3 Vocabulary

• uncharted- not shown or located on a map; unexplored; unknown, as a place or region
• irremediably - not admitting of remedy
• preordained -to ordain beforehand

2 Literary Terms

• Metaphor
• Similie

1 Overview Sentance

In this chapter Mai and her mother had recalled to when they left Saigon.

5|4|3|2|1 pages 59-93

5 Comments

• In this chapter Mai mentions her grandfather Baba Quan who was not a big man and could look delicate and slender but when she was a child she could lie in his arms and they would hold her like a sturdy hammock on a windy day.
• When her grand father would come to visit when she was young he would tell her stories about the Confucian convenant that would forever keep them connected to their acestors. But her mother was catholic and she became Catholic in a French Boarding school.
• In this chapter Mai's mother compares Vietnams ways to the Americans and she said she should get used to the American way now. " In Vietnam , the saying used to be ' Parents point, children sit' . In this country , it's become ' Children point, Parents sit'. It's about time I get used to the American way, no?"
• Mai and her mother travel to her Uncle Michael and Aunt Marys home which looked like it was a white salt box set a proper distance from the road, with pines, hemlocks, and other ever greens to give the lawn cool shade.
• The only conversation during dinner during the first day Mai had been there was her Mothers well being and she let them know she was going to Rehab.

4 Question

• Was Mai happy about staying in her Uncle Michael and Aunt Mary's home?
• Why was Mai so upset at the table when they mentioned her mother well being?
• Why did Mai compare her father to her Uncle?
• Did Mai like the way of living of her Uncle Michael and Aunt Mary?

3 Vocabulary

• impeccable-incapable of sin
• ostentatious-characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others
• confucian-of, pertaining to, or resembling the teachings of Confucius.

2 Literary terms

• Allusion
• Flashback

1 Overview Sentance

In this chapter Mai begins describing her grandfather and the thing he used to tell her when she was younger but later in the chapter she goes to Uncle Michaels and Aunt Mary's home.

5|4|3|2|1 pages 30 - 58

5 Comments

• Even though Mai had lived in Connecticut her mother insisted that it was not the safest place in the Country and they should move to Virginia because of its churches and because the state is really close to the capital and "In War the capital of any country is like the king in a game of Chess".
• At the beginning of the Chapter Mai mentions how different Supermarkets in American were compared to the ones in Saigon. The ones in America had packed meet that is sealed in plastic and the fruits were so polished the looked artificial. But the Markets in Saigon have barrels of live crabs, and yellow carps. It was also loud at the market and there was a strange smell.
• Mai reads a letter she stumbled upon in her mothers notebook and her mother had wrote that Mai didn't understand the magic she had in her ears she also didn't believe that her story is the same as her mothers.
• Mai's mother also wants to pass down the magic she has in her ears to her just like it happened with her mother and her.

4 Question

• Was Mai upset that she didn't get to stay Connecticut?
• Did Mai's mother adapt to the Americans ways?
• Does Mai feel bad while she is reading her mothers letter?
• Does Mai understand what magic her mother is talking about now?

3 Vocabulary

• beckoned- to signal, summon, or direct by a gesture of the head or hand.
• intuitively - perceiving by intuition, as a person or the mind.
• prestigious -having a high reputation; honored

2 Literary Terms

• Imagery
• Alliteration

1 Overview Sentance

In this chapter Mai discovers something that she didn't know about her mother which was her magic ear.

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.

5|4|3|2|1 pages 177-183

5 Comments

• In this chapter Johannes is no longer Johannes he is Gemm 16884 now


• He is also back in the United Social Alliance, Westorn Sector , the Yea5r of Tranquilit6y 2407.


• This is the shortest chapter of the book because we are close to the ending


• I don't think the author closed the story right but it was still intresting


• Johannes ges in trouble because an elder motioned to him for the music to stop

4 Questions

• Was he happ with being Gemm 16884 again?


• Did Gemm 16884 want to remaine being Johannes?


• Did his old family miss him?


• What happened to his wife?

3 Vocabulary

• Linger-to remain or stay on in a place longer than is usual or expected, as if from reluctance to leave


• Throbbing-to beat with increased force or rapidity, as the heart under the influence of emotion or excitement


• Persist-to continue steadfastly or firmly in some state, purpose, course of action, or the like, esp. in spite of opposition, remonstrance

2 Literary Terms

• Foreshadowing


• Alliteration

1 Overview Sentance

This is the ending of the book and I enjoyed the book and reccomend it to people who liked reading the Anthem.

5|4|3|2|1 pages 137-157

5 Comments

• From now on he says that he will wake up and pray with three of his friends.
• They said " May he remember that he promised us the coming of Moshiach may he come in our lifetime"
• When he prays what he really awaits is Spring time and Margarite
• Now there were strange things going on Christians were killing Jews and accusing them of bringing the pestilence.
• Pope Clement IV defends the Jews, by issuing an edict from his place in Avingnon.

4 Questions

• Why did he want to pray every morning?
• What does the quote they said mean while they were praying?
• Why were Christians killing Jews?
• Why were Jews accuse them for bringin the pestilence?

3 Vocabulary

• Pestilence-A usually fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague.
• Edict-A decree or proclamation issued by an authority and having the force of law.
• Sanity-The quality or condition of being sane; soundness of mind.

2 Literary Terms

• Personificaion
• Similie

1 Overview Sentance

In these chapter it shows a more religions of Johannes.

5|4|3|2|1 pages 158-176

5 Comments

• In that society information goes to it but slowly or gently.
• In these chapter there is alot of Metaphors for example when Johannes says that information spreads through out the community like snow drifting down, like an avalanche.
• Everyone in the Jewish Section has found out about Peril.
• Everyone in the society has terror in their eyes.
• This is the most intresting chapter yet

4 Questions

• Whats going to happen to every one?
• Is Johannes scared?
• Where are Johannes grandparents?
• Where is his wife?

3 Vocabulary

• Peril-exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger
• Vast-of very great area or extent
• Hypocrisy-a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles

2 Literary Terms

• Irony
• Hyperbole

1 Overview Sentance

In this chapter you can see the fear that their is in the society