5/4/3/2/1 Notes #2

5) * The characters, the protagonist and Bobbie are heading to Canada in order to call Baba Quan and tell him that Mama is sick.

*Background: in 1975 thousands of Indochinese began settling in Virginia. They came to the country as refuges from the Vietnam War.

*Their mission in Canada was to phone the post office from Vietnam and have the Baba Quan located, and tell him that his daughter was in the hospital with a blood clot in her brain.

*Apparently, Baba Quan had never assumed his role as father or had never gotten his fatherhood as the writer says in the quote" He would assume a new form and step into the ways of fatherhood."

*Our main character is heading to college and needs her grandfather to come to America to take care of her daughter in order for her to can go to college.

4) *Why do they have to travel all the way to Canada to call Baba Quan?

*How did the Indochinese refugees come to America?

*Who else lives with the character and her mom?

*How old is the character? Because they are driving.

3) *Cozy: pleasant.

*Tug: jerk.

*Jiggle: waggle.

*Gust: blast of air.

2) *Personification: " But the vast vacant sky was shrinking fast." The author has given the sky characteristics of living organisms.

*Allusion: in page number 21, the author makes reference of a major league baseball team, The Orioles.

1) At this point, our characters are heading towards Canada to call her grandfather and tell him that Mom is in the hospital with a blood clot in her brain so he could now " assume a new form and step into the ways of fatherhood" the author says in page number 17. Also, now we now what the real purpose of this trip is for; she wants Baba Quan to come to America so she can go to college while he takes care of her sick mom at home.