Analysis Of First They Killed My Father By Loung Ung

The book, First They killed my Father, was a book that tells readers about Loung Ung's experiences of surviving the war at Cambodia. When the war started, she complained and hoped that their lives will be back to normal. As this didn't happen, she suffered from many things at a young age that teenage girls shouldn't be experiencing. It's the luck and food you could get to survive from starvation. It demonstrates fear that made them live only for themselves and family but it also showed how anger and hatred could be used to survive. After leaving with her family into the countryside, along with thousands of others who were evacuating Phnom Penh, Loung slowly learned the first of many hard lessons. Pa made the decision to hide their identity,
their education, and their former life of privilege. Loung lost her freedom of happiness, not having able to express her emotions inside her that was full of hatred, rage, love, and wounds. Loung became deaf, mute, blind, and dumb to survive.
In their village Pa knew a lot of things like being friendly to the chief of the village to get enough food for his family. As he lie to them, it increases his risk of death but anything for his family, he would sacrifice his life in order to protect them. Every parents tried to protect their children even if you have to get married to a stranger to get you away from danger. These fears helped them manage get any obstacles out of the way in order to find survival.
Every time Loung's parents sense the danger, they move from village to village and work day and night to survive from their little rations of food. All members of the family work together as they look for other foods like roots and leaves or small animals that they could trap. When they have nothing to eat, they caught beetles, crickets, grasshoppers, and frogs for food. In fear of having nothing to eat, rules could be broken that if caught, can be punished by death.