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

5) *The narrator was told that she would just stay temporarily with Colonel Michael McMahon and her Aunt Mary and she would return to Vietnam when the communist offensive was pushed back.

*A few months before she came to the United States of America, the war ended in Vietnam but our character never went back to her loved country.

*The narrator stayed separated from her mother for six months because mom was trying to convince Baba Quan, her father, to come to the United States, nevertheless as we know old people always want to stay where they are and die in the same place.

*Apparently, her mother has had issues with the Americans because in one quote she says " you have to stand up to the Americans if you want anything in this country". This means that perhaps in someway she has confronted conflicts in this country already.

*According to her father, "one wrong move" was what decided or conduced the course on one's life. It is something like "think before you leap" meaning.

4) * Who is Ho Minh?

*What type of war was going on in Vietnam by that period time?

*Why did the family never return to Vietnam?

*Who governed the United States by that time?

3) *Impend: be about to happen.

*Hex: curse.

*Prowl: hang around.

*Plaster: make public.

2) *Simile: " his beard, my father described, silver and majestic like a thunderbolt in a dark night.

*Vocabulary word: in page number 20, there is a word from our vocabulary book. The word is "ominous."

1) in this part of the book, we see that the narrator has told us the story of how and why she came to the United States. She has also showed us the reason her mom gave her so she would come to the country. Her mom told her that after the war was done they would go back to their home country. Nevertheless the war ended and they never went back to Vietnam.