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5.Comments:
- I use to do the same thing Mai did (read her mother's "diary") but instead I read my older sisters diary.
- Mai's mother consider Mai before anything as I read in the ninth chapter; I believe that most parents put their children first on the list.
- I did not know that they had Ovaltine drinks back then; I use to see commercials for the drink.
- My mother was just like Mai's mother because they both got married at a young age.
- Vietnamese people tend to think that girls should get married before anything else; getting a good husband is very important to Vietnamese people.
- Where is Guam?
- What are sampans?
- What are sweetmeats?
- Is Newtonian a place? If so, where is it located?
- Monsoon: the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter
- Phlegmy: one of the four humors of ancient and medieval physiology, thought to cause sluggishness, apathy, and evenness of temper.
- Pewter: any of various alloys in which tin is the chief constituent, originally one of tin and lead
- Simile: "My grandfather's last day, or what I supposed to be his last day, in Saigon lingered like a lantern on a gray, motionless night." (page 164)
- Imagery: "...the molten fluidness of the rice fields, the graceful sanctuary of a covenant, and the blinding purple of bougainvilleas." (page 168)
- Mai secretly read her mother's "diary" for the second time.
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