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An Analysis Of Loung Ung's First They Killed My Father

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‘First They Killed My Father’ is a historical-non fiction tale that recounts author Loung Ung’s experience during the Cambodian Genocide from 1975 till 1979, her five-year-old self fighting through pain and loss in the battle to survive with her family throughout the devastating war - her experiences invoking empathy in her readers and allowing us to connect through her viewpoint during that time and understand why she felt, thought and did what she had throughout the book. All this combined with her first-person narrative of these events contributes towards the reader putting themselves into her shoes, understanding her actions and reactions and connecting with a small part of Cambodia’s history.

The text persuades the reader to empathize

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