Monkey Bridge Quotes

East Asia Lenses Writing - Class based (level of education) Throughout the novel, Monkey Bridge by Lao Cao, Mai and her mother experienced few opportunities that have been more successful having moved to America. Thanh, the mother, was not able to pursue education in Vietnam. But when they moved to America, Mai was able to get the education that her mother was never able to receive. In one of the letters that Thanh wrote Mai, it read; “Only from her American teachers can she acquire knowledge, she believes;” (Cao 54). This quote truly shows, that Thanh’s decision to move to America, successfully impacted the future of Mai.