5/4/3/2/1 NOTES # 9

5) *Baba Quan was scared to leave Vietnam according to Mai and supposedly he would suffer by coming to this country as Mai expresses in on of her quotes "I imagined his slow agonies: a frail figure pacing the cement sidewalk below a row of corrugated roofs."

*Mai did not like the "help" that the United States was giving to her country. This feeling is shown when she says in page number 165, " The picture of a helicopter, courtesy of the American taxpayers, jackknifed headfirst into the ocean."

*Mai is very different from her mom in attitude behavior. Mai shows this fact in page number 166 when she says, " As my mother made the transition into the complex business of fully recovering, I seemed to be doing the reverse."

*The interview that Mai had about going to college had never answered back. It had been two months and nothing seemed to be a sign.

*Mai is has now come back to the story of their apartment in the American Continent.

4) *Why doesn't Baba Quan want to go to the United States?

*How would it be painful for Baba Quan to go to the United States?

*Where does Mai live right now?

*When did the Vietnam War ended completely?

3) *Vicinity: neighborhood.

*Hover: stay close.

*Hinge: turning point.

*Plausible: reasonable.

2) *Simile: "In Saigon like a lantern on a gray, motionless light" (164)

*Allusion: In page number 165, the narrator makes a reference to ABC News by giving them a role into the novel. This role is the informative role that they gave during the Vietnam War.

1) In this chapter, the narrator has come back to the topic of Baba Quan coming to the United States. She says that it would be an agony for Baba Quan to come to the United States. Besides, now the narrator has begun to talk about the apartment again.