5/4/3/2/1 NOTES # 4

5) *The only reason why Mai wanted to leave was because she wanted to attend to college as she says in one of her quotes in page number 32. "I tricked her into believing the reason I wanted to leave was to attend to college, not to flee from a phantom world that could no longer offer comfort or sanctuary."

*Mai is the kind of person who does not believed in the spiritual world. As she clarifies in page number 46 " If I were the kind of person who believed in the spirit world, I would describe the feeling as that of someone who had come upon the presence of an enormous ghost."

*Mai has found a letter that her mom had hidden for a long time. In this letter her mom clarifies how she got her ears to be like they are, deformed.

*Mai's mom says that she inherited her grandmother's ears from a strange ritual they used to do when Mai's mom was little.

*Besides, in this letter Mai's mom declares that she is very worried about what Mai does and wants because she is the most important part of her life.

4) *Why is the story of her ears involved in the situation?

*When did they start to talk about their ears?

*What does Baba Quan have to do with all these story of the ears?

3) *Stupor: state of unconsciousness.

*Tassel: decoration.

*Pummel: punch.

*Monsoon: torrential rain.

2) Hyperbole: "it can get so cold that their breath does acrobatics in the air just to keep warm."

*Personification: "its muscular letters, erect and vertical, marched across."

1) At this point of the book, we have been shown that Mai, which for the first time was name-mentioned, is completely the opposite of her mother. First because Mai is not a spiritual girl at all, meaning that she doesn't have the same believes of her mother. Secondly because Mai does not want to stay in the same situation as her mother, Mai wants to go to college and become something else. Also, in this part of the book the story of the deformed ears is presented to the reader and we now know that is inherited from generation to generation. Since the strange rituals from a long time ago.