"Brother Quang says,

How can we scramble away

like rats,

root word - scramb (“to pull or scrape together with the hands”)

sentence: I open mother's white handkerchief inside lays my mouth bitten doll her arms wrapped around the lump fuzzy body of his chick.

pg84

Sentence: "Mother wants to sell the amethyst ring Father brought back from America".

The word amethyst was originally a Greek word meaning, "not drunk". The Greeks thought that the stone might be able to prevent intoxication.

Sentence: "He keeps clutching something in the left pocket, where the stench grows".

The word clutch has roots in Proto-Germanic and Old English.

NO!

whats the point of

new shirts and sandals

if you loss the last

tangible remnant of love

He boards the other ship, salutes and shakes hands with a man whose hare grows and is face and not his head in the color of flames

Sentence: "Mother smoothes back my hair, knowing the pain of a girl who loves snacks but is stranded on a ship." (pg.81)

Sentence: "A flattened chick lies crooked, neck dangling off his palm." (pg.84)

Sentence: "We have landed on an island called Guam, which no one can pronounce except Brother Quang, who becomes translated for all."

Guam is an "organized, unincorporated territory" of the United States. - Wikipedia

Sentence: Neighbors complain even the ones ate mats away, saying it's bad enough being trapped on putrid, hot air made from fermented bodies and oily sweat, must everybody also endure something rotten?

Origin: French

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def: to have a large round or pig like stomach