Brenden Melody
10-20-14
Period 3
Quarter 1 Literary Analysis
Mrs. Giuliano
Never Fall Down
The Khmer Rouge a communist organization formed in Cambodia in 1970; became a terrorist organization in 1975. When it captured Phnom Penh and created a government that killed an estimated three million people who were mostly cambodian. Mainly, remembered for orchestrating the
Cambodian genocide. Millions of those deaths had to do a lot with murder, diseases such as malaria, and then the rest were tortured on daily accounts. The acts of cruelty from the Khmer Rouge were very horrifying and we should never forget them. Patricia McCormick’s captivating novel Never Fall Down encapsulates the ability of a boy named Arn to maneuver through these horrific …show more content…
In conclusion, Patricia McCormick’s captivating novel Never Fall Down encapsulates the ability of a boy named Arn to maneuver through these horrific atrocities of the Khmer Rouge regime in
Cambodia and some how manages to survive. Arn just being eleven has a great personality, is able to make friends, and uses his knowledge of what he knows to survive. Arn uses these three thing to survive the cambodian genocide that was depicted by the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge a communist organization formed in Cambodia in 1970; became a terrorist organization in 1975. When it captured Phnom Penh and created a government that killed an estimated three million people who were mostly cambodian. Mainly, remembered for orchestrating the Cambodian genocide. Millions of those
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deaths had to do a lot with murder, diseases such as malaria, and then the rest were tortured on daily accounts. The acts of cruelty from the Khmer Rouge were very horrifying and we should never forget them. This is why I feel that the author chose this topic or his life story not only because he lived through but to spread the knowledge of what the Khmer Rouge had