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Summary: SAD NEWS
Review: THIS BOOK WAS VERY GOOD. IT IS WORTH THE MONEY YOU WILL BE SO MOVED BY WHAT HAPPENS.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: First They Killed My Father was an excellent piece of literature. Loung Ung vivdly described each and every event that occured with the genocide of the Khmer Rouge. I felt like I was actually feeling all her pain and suffering when she was hungry or mourning over her father's death. She makes you feel like you too were part of this tragedy. I highly recommend this book to each and every person in this world. This is truly a magnificent book. You should read it.
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Summary: Summary of First They Killed My Father
Review: This book is about how a little girl named Loung went through the horrors of being in the Pol Pot movement. Throughout teh movement she faces difficult obstacles in order to keep herself and family out of danger. However one day in the book Loung's family dies of slowly and painfully. Loung later moves and grow to live in America. Fisrt The Killed My Father takes place in Cambdoia during the 1900's. The book is also a further look into the Khmer Rouge develoment. Important scene:
The scene that meant the most to me was when Loung's dress was burning in the fire. This symbolized the fire wall o fteh Pol Pot movement. Recommendations;
I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn about Cambodia and teh Po Pot Movement
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Summary: Another Review By Mr.Balla
Review: This book is about Lounge Ung and her family as they struggle through the war in Cambodian war. Loung loses some of her family member to the Khmer Rouge. She survives the war but some of her siblings don't. An important scene would be when Loung was on her own. Loung had to leave or was asked to leave by her mom. She said that if everyone stays together they would all die together. This shows how responsible she was and how she took care of herself. It was noted in the story "Now go she turns me around by my shoulder and bends down to give me a swat on her butt, pushing me away." Although she is young and doesn't want to leave her mom she must do so. This helps her to gain resonsibilitie
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Summary: Go and get this !!
Review: A Cambodian girl who lived a wealthy life never thought that she would ever live the way she had to after the Khmer Rouge took over. When Pol Pot and his army took over the government people thought that it was all over. Loung, one of seven children, learned how to be independent. She was trained at different camps. She was separated form her family for the best. After so many years the Vietnamese took over Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. That was when Loung went to the United States to get and education. Then after years of being in the United States Loung was glad she went to Cambodia to visit her family. An important scene one of the chapters was "the last gathering". I think this because it was the time that the family was together without Pa or Keav. They would never know when they would meet again. "Walking away, I break my farewell rule and look back to see Ma, Chou, and Geak crying and standing in the doorway. It was a mistake to turn around; my body aches to run back to them, to hold on to them. Expanding my lungs with air, I straighten my shoulders and march away firmly, wondering when I'll see them again."(Page 157) I like the book because it taught me things that I did not know. To my peers- yes, I would recommend this book to then because they will learn a lot about Cambodia and what happen To adults- yes, I would recommend this book to then because it was interesting and exciting To other schools- yes, I would recommend this book to then because they can learn about Cambodia and Loung's experience
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Summary: You never want to stop reading
Review: When They First Killed My Father is a dramatic story written by Loung's experience when she was young. In the beginning, everything was good enough for her life living in Phnom Penh. One day, Loung and her family went on a hardship journey to survive. Loung have to learn to survive on her own because one by one each of her family members died. This is a journey to survive from the war to escape from all these tragedy of deaths and temptations.
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Summary: Best Book I've Ever Read!
Review: First They Killed My Father, written by Loung Ung is an autobiography. It's about a young Khmer girl, Loung who survived through the genocide that happened in Cambodia. She writes about everything that happened to her from the beginning when she was a small girl in Cambodia to an adult living in the U.S. Loung also describes the things she saw happening to her people as they were tortured and executed for just being and intellectual and just disliking the Angkar.
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Summary: Review
Review: This is a novel that will open your eyes and have you think about the things you take advantage of and the people you "love". In this novel, Loung uses metaphors that have you think and puts you in situations like you're actually there. Never would i think a novel could do this. The Khmer Rouge is a major factor in this novel. The Khmer Rouge have changed Lounge's life
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Summary: My thought
Review: the book was about a girl and her family had to move out of there home.Because of a war was about to happen in there country. loung had a hard life in between her childhood. when i read the book the first time i didnt like it at all but when i read it again it was good. it was a hard book to understand. i would say that othe rpeople should read the book from my point.
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Summary: Read This Before You Visit Cambodia
Review: I just returned from Cambodia, and like many other reviewers, I found this a difficult but rewarding read that kept me up all night. Many of the descriptions of Phnom Penh from 1975 could be contemporary - except some conditions have deteriorated. I was deeply affected by my short time in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. People are still starving or chronically undernourished (often children you assume are 7 or 8 years old are actually 10 to 12), the hospitals/medical care are still primitive, there is no public phone or transportation system, and most roads in the capital are dirt. 50% of the population is under age 15, and there is a noticeable shortage of middle-aged/adult men. Because anyone skilled in business, medicine, education, or government were murdered by the Khmer Rouge, the usual pool of resources a country emerging from civil war would draw on to rebuild has been lost. In their stead, NGOs have flooded Phnom Penh, becoming a surrogate white-collar class. Suggest you read this as well as "The Pol Pot Regime", which documents the civil war period from a political viewpoint, then finish with "Off the Rails in Cambodia - Guns, Girls, and Ganja", which gives a picture of what happens to people when a government is impotent and a country is so poor, they can't afford to consider the moral and ethical dilemmas of survival. You will still be affected, but hopefully not quite so shocked, by what you find in this beautiful but damaged country.
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