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Analysis Of First They Killed My Father By Loung Ung

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Did you know that Loung Ung had been through a genocide with her family and only a few of them survived. Well, this story is about a war that is taking place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and ends in America. One day outside Loung sees people on the back of trucks coming into the city and everybody is cheering them one because they all think the war is over, but for her town they all do not now what is going to happen after the Khmer Rouge tells them that they have to evacuate the area for three days and says you can return in the meanwhile. In the memoir, First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung, the author demonstrates how the Khmer Rouge use the techniques of fear in order to take control over Cambodia cities and farms.
Loung is a little girl

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