Roar Book: Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao

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5.Comments:

• I have recently learned about the guerrilla tactics in which the book had mentioned.
• Mai was very nervous for her interview which is very common and natural.
• Amy Layton was very nice to Mai; she joked to make the atmosphere less tense.
• I have never heard about the Year of the Water Buffalo before.
• I think Mai's mother was right about education; it is very important and is needed.

4.Questions:

• When was Mary Lyon born?
• When did Mary Lyon pass away?
• When is the Year of the Water Buffalo?
• Is the Water buffalo a zodiac? If, so what are the other zodiacs?

3.Vocabulary:

• Litany: a ceremonial or liturgical form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations or supplications with responses that are the same for a number in succession
• Asphalt: any of various dark-colored, solid, bituminous substances, native in various areas of the earth and composed mainly of hydrocarbon mixtures
• Cloistered: secluded from the world; sheltered

2.Literary Terms:

• Imagery: "...plan limestone painted a crusted yellow with a brick courtyard surrounded by a wrought-iron fence on a wide boulevard lined with French villas and old tamarid tress." (page 127)
• Direct Characterization: "a tallish woman in her early thirties ... she had tinted blond hair." (page 124)

1.Overview:

• Mai is attempting to attend college but first she had to do an interview with Amy Layton.