Analysis Of First They Killed My Father By Loung Ung
During the Khmer Rouge movement in Cambodia, about 1.5 million Cambodians out of a total population of 7 to 8 million were killed by the Khmer Rouge. Loung and her family of nine faced many difficult challenges living in fear of the Khmer Rouge. The Ung family is told to leave there home and forced into consideration camps, starved and worked to death. The Khmer Rouge uses many methods to instill fear into the Cambodians and to gain more power. In the memoir, First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung, the author demonstrates how the Khmer Rouge uses the techniques of fear in order to gain