Loung Ung

Loung Ung started with talking about her country and how amazing was her family and her life before Vietnam war. Ung described her country and the life in there , and how her family and her were happy and safety. Ung also talked about her family and her were spending amazing times together in cinema , go out for dinner and other things. Ung also described how her father keep the family close to each other. Then Ung started to talk about what happened after the Vietnam War and how a

The book Lucky Child by Loung Ung tells the story about Loung who was fortunate to escape the terrifying invasion of the Khmer Rouge and escape to america.The pressure of dealing with assimilation and trying to fit in leaves Loung lost in the journey of trying to find out who she really is. “When Pol Pot’s communist Khmer Rouge stormed into the city April 17, 1975,my charmed life came to an end. On that day, Cambodia became a prison and all its citizens prisoners.”(Ung,1) That is the first flashback

khmer rouge in 1975, forcing all of the people who lived in the city to evacuate. Loung Ung’s family was forced out of their second class home during the evacuation. Desensitization played a huge role in the loss of innocence that took place during this biography. In the biography “First They Killed My Father” written by Loung Ung, Loungs loss of innocence is destroyed due to the harsh rule of the Khmer Rouge. Loung is thrown into the midst of the war almost instantly. “Yesterday I was playing hopscotch

story was Loung Ung, a 5 year old and a second last born who comes from a middle class family of eight children. She was a daughter of a former member of the Cambodian Royal secret service and they lived in Phnom Penh. Loung's father loved gambling and used to win most of the times until the day he went too far and bet all his money and house on a game to the extent of almost losing his own family. The Khmer rouge was a group of communists who stormed Phnom Penh city in 1975 which forced the Ung family

commit entirely, regardless of their orders because they believed it was in the best interest of Cambodia. An example of this in First They Killed My Father was when Loung Ung was promoted to soldier status. From there, constant propaganda against the Vietnamese was constantly used to ensure they would fight against them. Ironically, Loung Un, who always resented the Khmer Rouge, developed a fear of the Vietnamese and at one point, actually shot into foliage as she believed the Vietnamese were near due

world with no warning, how would you survive? In the memoir First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung, the Ung family lives in Phom Penh, Cambodia. They are forced from their home and moved around during the Cambodian Genocide. The memoir follows Loung Ung's journey through the Cambodian Genocide, through the loss of her family, through camps, and through the escape that led her to America. During this time, Loung loses both of her parents and two of her siblings. She has a tough time carrying on without

the case of Loung Ung, it would have been that way too. That is, if she had gotten to remain a child who continuously loved red with no strings attached. In the memoir First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung, the color red symbolizes different stages of the author’s life. Loung grew up in Cambodia and until she was five she led a spoiled, upper-middle class life with her eight family members. Then the tyrannical Khmer Rouge and their leader Pol Pot came to power, forcing the Ungs into a life of

In the beginning of First They Killed my Father, Loung Ung uses a tone of nostalgia to emphasize that the lighthearted, well-off family will never be the same after the Khmer Rouge regime forces them out of their home. Words such as “sing” and “buzz” indicate the fondness with which Loung remembers Phnom Penh and her own innocence within a world where her greatest concern is her mother’s fussing over her appearance (Ung 1). The reader knows that she will soon lose her naïvity when tyrannical government

HY 104-08 First They Killed My Father In the novel First They Killed My Father, the reader follows the personal account of Loung Ung. Loung Ung and her family were exposed to some of the worst atrocities a person can experience. Since Loung and the rest of the Ung family came from a middle-class family, the drastic change that occurred so quickly was even harder. Loung and her family were in Cambodia during the rule of the dictator Pol Pot. The Khmer Rouge was the Cambodian Communist party from

overall matter in this section is the war and Loung and her family’s escape for safety. Due to the lack of food, deaths of family members and friends, and just an overall terrible life with petrifying Khmer Rouge soldiers, Loung and her family has no energy nor time for happiness. Loung Ung, who is also the author of this book, delineates her despair towards her changed life, and expresses her need for food. In the past, back in Phnom Penh, Pa told Loung that “people should be good not because they