Analysis Of Lucky Child By Loung

Imagine an event so terrifying that the memories cause nightmares that cling and refuse to leave, dragging a person down to absolute rock bottom. This is what Loung faces in the novel, Lucky Child. She experiences a hideous genocide in her home country of Cambodia as a child. During the genocide, she is exposed to the deaths of her parents, as well as horrendous situations that no girl her age should ever have to go through, such as watching her best friend’s brain splatter on her during a bombing in her village. Such events had a traumatic effect on her life and forced her to be more mature at such a young age. At age ten she is chosen by Meng and Eang to make the dangerous trip from Cambodia to America, while the rest of her family is left behind. While in America, Loung unsuccessfully attempts to cope with
*In her first attempt to escape her past, Loung decides to tell her story by illustrating her journey through writing. While Loung is in America she struggles to escape the demons. She has relentless nightmares that she cannot get to stop. Despite being influenced by her teacher and her friend at college, she is not able to build up enough courage to write about her story until she faces a crucial moment in her life. While in her room one night, her sadness overtakes her body; a feeling that is uncontrollable. She takes matters into her own hands, and goes into the bathroom and devours all of the pills in the bottle. After she consumes the pills, she immediately thinks about her family and how Geak had to suffer when Ma died in her arms. She forces herself to regurgitate the pills and go attend to her sisters. What