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The setting and characterization of the central characters of First They Killed My Father; A Daughter Of Cambodia Remembers is represented in our book cover through a truck driving down a trail with helpless Cambodian citizens passing Khmer Rouge soldiers. We chose to show the entire family because

The novel Parvana written by Deborah Ellis is about a young Afghanistan girl who has to pretend to be a boy in a war torn town called Kabul. Parvana is a very courageous girl because she does everything for family, such as going to into town to help her father him with his work, knowing that there are no girls allowed outside of their houses. Parvana is also very brave because she wants to earn more money for her family, so her and a friend Shauzia decide to go and dig up bones to earn more money. That’s not the only time Parana was being courageous, because Parvana had to go with her mother to go and get her father from the jail and bring him home.

The book I read was “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros. There was many themes in this book. The two I want to focus on are Loss of Innocence and The Power of Words.

Eric Tang’s Unsettled is an ethnographic account of Cambodian refugees in the Bronx, New York that evokes a nuanced understanding of the refugee experience. Unlike many other ethnographies, Tang’s work centers around one individual named Ra Pronh, a fifty year old woman who survived the Cambodian genocide and has lived as a refugee for most of her life. The bulk of his work draws upon two main sources: Tang’s notes that are gathered from his work as a community organizer in refugee neighborhoods and his interviews with Ra Pronh over a three year time period. Throughout his interviews with Ra, Tang often encountered a language barrier with her. There were times where Ra’s children would translate her words from Khmer to English for Tang to

The book Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper is both a heart wrenching and heartwarming narrative story about a fifteen-year-old African girl named Amari and her journey through enslavement. She is harshly trapped by the “pale-faced” strangers in a friendly visit to their village, Ziavi, which surprisingly enough ends in a fire that destroys their village- and their people as well. Devastated by her family’s deaths and lost opportunities, she is taken down to the ship in destination to the Americas where she is expected to be worth a couple pounds. Experiencing traumatizing events like being repeatedly raped by slave owners, she overcomes many of the harsh obstacles put in her way with empowering characters such as Afi and her best friend Polly.

A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park highlights the life of a boy from Sudan that is forced to leave his country as a refugee. Salva Dut, 11, was living in South Sudan when the civil war came to his village. He was forced into the bush, leaving his family and all he knew behind him. He met up with local village members and walked East, not sure where he was headed, just knowing that he was away from his family. On the journey, he became friends with a kid named Marial and he also found his uncle Jewiir. Unfortunately, on this difficult journey, Marial was eaten by a lion in the middle of the night. Salva and the others kept walking East on their way to a refugee camp. They had to cross the Nile River in handmade boats and the Akobo

Vahan and his family are caught in the middle of the Armenian Genocide. In the book, Forgotten Fire, by Adam Bagdasarian, Sarkis Kendrian is a well respected Armenian mandarin of the city of Bitlis with several children and very little to worry about. That, of course, was until the beginning of the Armenian Genocide. Just after the beginning of it, multiple military personnel showed up at the front door of the home of Sarkis. They said he was wanted by the government and even though he knew that was not true he went with it. He, along with many other men from his town, were taken into the streets where they were killed. Shortly after, two of Vahan’s older brothers were taken behind the house and killed as well. This left the mother, Vahan, and his sisters and brother on their own as they were taken by the military along with many other members

There is a thin line between living and surviving. In the memoir, First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung, it is evident that one’s ability to live a comfortable life is often times thwarted by factors that force many to try and survive. Cambodian-born American human rights activist, Loung Ung, is a survivor of the Cambodian genocide that took place from 1975 to 1979. While under the influence of Cambodia’s new communist government, the Khmer Rouge, around 1.5 million men, women, and children died from exhaustion, starvation, and disease. As the daughter of an old democratic government official, Ung and her family were forced to abandon their old life in hopes for survival. A reoccurring theme within Ung’s memoir is that suffering,

Daughter of War Imagine a society in which you would be afraid of losing your life if anyone was to find out where you were born. Daughter of War by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, a Ukrainian Canadian writer, is a novel about two Armenian orphans Marta and Kevork living in the times of the horrifying Armenian Genocide: The monstrosities conferred against the Armenian individuals of the Ottoman Empire amid W.W.I. Genocide is the planned out murdering of a people for expressing the motivation behind putting a finish to their presence. Due to its severity, genocide requires detailed planning to execute it. This makes genocide the quintessential state wrongdoing as just a legislature has the assets to do such a plan of obliteration.

War can be dangerous and after it is long gone it can leave an effect on the soldiers and the people of that country. The author of the memoir, First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung experienced many hardships as a child. Most of these issues originated from the war that take place in Cambodia at that time. The war caused many challenges for the villagers including children like Ung and that affected them in a drastic way.

The book I read is called Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick, and for this project, I chose to do the album cover. I would give this novel 5/5 stars because it was an interesting story that taught me about the Cambodian genocide in the perspective of a real person that actually experienced it. The story was also very well-written and thoroughly showed how the main character and millions of others had been affected by it. So, this book is mainly about a devastating massacre that took place in Cambodia and how the main character was able to survive it. From the perspective of a young boy named Arn, it is about how he and many others are forced to leave their home when they are falsely told that the Americans are going to bomb their country.

John Chapter three and four have two very different characters speaking to Jesus. In chapter three there is a Jewish leader named Nicodemus who approaches Jesus at night in the darkness. Then we have a Samaritan woman who is hated by the Jews speaking to Jesus in the middle of the day in bright daylight. Nicodemus comes out of the darkness to speak to the true light of Jesus Christ and the Samaritan woman who is in the day light does not even recognize Jesus as the true light of the world at first. Jesus tells Nicodemus that he must be born form above to be able to enter the kingdom of God. Nicodemus was confused by what Jesus said but Jesus explained that the Son of Man must be lifted up and everyone who looks at the

Imagine, being insulted wherever you go, Imagine having to live with 8 families in one small house. This is the daily life of a girl named Ru a refugee that escaped Vietnam during the war. In the novel, Ru by Kim Thuy set in the 1950s. Thuy demonstrates how being a Vietnamese refugee disrupts many lives, in particular, Ru’s life. Throughout her life, she was forced to endure countless conflicts as a result of being a minority in Vietnam, to Malaysia where she survived, until she reached Montreal, Quebec. During the Vietnamese communism war, she seems to flourishes and succeeds in a family with financial struggles as she strives to secure a safe home in Quebec. Due to the war that exiled her from her from Saigon in South Vietnam. She makes a

Rukmani is at first curious As To what is going on when the men who build the tannery arrive. She is amazingly clearsighted, however and once she sees the effect the tannery has on the village's way of life she is resentful and filled with foreboding. When the white men first arrive Rukmani rushes out with the rest of the villagers to see what they will do. She notes that initially the overseer and the workers seem to enjoy having created such a stir and lured such a big audience but After Awhile, the overseer tells the people to go so as not to disturb the men. Rukmani and some of the onlookers are somewhat taken aback that the newcomers Should Be so presumptuous as to tell them what to do in their own village but she and most of the others

Beginning with the genesis of the Khmer Rouge, it will become clear that Cambodians endured a period of time in which radical events might seem inevitable.