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

5) *Mai's mom is a very devoted catholic. She became a catholic in a French boarding school.

*Mai's mom says that her in America everything changes at a point that everything turns all the way around of what we are used to see and feel. She says in page number 60 " In Vietnam, the saying used to be 'parents point, children sit.' In this country, it's become 'Children point, parents sit.' "

*Mai's mom says in her letter that it was because of her long, long ears that she was first tugged from her mother's womb.

*Mai also says that college is the "American equivalent of the Shaolin Temple and the bo tree and the emperor's court and other, similar nonsense." Pg. number 53

*Baba Quan is described as a "not big man, and although he could look delicate and slender like an impeccable specimen of driftwood, it would be more accurate to compare him to a bamboo.

4) *Why does our narrator tell us her mom's religion?

*Why does the narrator tell us about Baba Quan's features and character until now?

*Why is Baba Quan very a religious character?

*What does Baba Quan mean when he says " the farther we wander from the earth and water of the burial ground, the weaker our ties to our ancestors become" on page number 59?

3) *Burial: interment.

*Bulge: protuberance.

*Reassure: encourage.

*Sleek: glossy.

2) *Simile: " and slender like an impeccable specimen of driftwood." Page number 59.

*Hyperbole: "it can get so cold that dragons have to blow fire into the sun so hard their scales drop off." Page number 48.

1) In this chapter number 6, a little of background and exposition is shown with the exposition of Baba Quan' features and character. Also, we discovered that Mai's mom is a devoted catholic because of the school she went to, and her more of the story of her ears.