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First They Killed My Father By Loung Ung

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In First they Killed My Father by Loung Ung, Loung Ung writes about what her family experienced living under the Khmer Rouge during the Cambodian genocide.The pattern expected of people that experience atrocities like the ones Loung Ung and her family did is that, if they are to survive, they’ll want to take revenge upon the people who are responsible for it or at least see justice for the people that lost their lives during the genocide. While she does not carry out the revenge herself, in one of the most brutal chapters of the book, Loung Ung, does exactly what’s expected when she goes to watch the execution of a Khmer rouge soldier, despite her sister telling her that she didn’t want to attend at that she shouldn’t attend either. Loung

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