5/4/3/2/1 NOTES # 8

5) *Mai learned to fight with the martial arts native from Vietnam. She also compared the college interview with one of the fights in which her parents taught her. She said that she felt as a fighter and she felt that the interviewer was her opponent.

*Apparently Mai has an army of fighters.

*Mai has fought against some kind of army together with her sister-the sister's name is not mentioned anywhere- and they have learned to survive.

*Even the government has an army "The governor's army had been massively equipped with the most up-to-date weapons.

*Mai has gone back to Vietnam to fight in the war.

4) *Who are the Trung sisters?

*What was the Chinese Invasion?

*Where did Mai get the Army?

*Why does this narrator changes bigly every time she moves from each chapter?

3) *Swamp: flood.

*Nomad: traveler.

*Foresight: prudence.

*Reinforced: resistant.

2) *Metaphor: " When the black sky."(120)


1) In this chapter, the author has weirdly changed her topic or theme to a theme of fighting and the way attacked with her army. This chapter truly hard to understand because of the way she radically changes her theme of focus.