“First They Killed My Father” [Loung Ung]
The setting I like the most in this book is when Loung was walking to the infirmary to recover to become strong so that she will not be kicked out from the refugee camp and the scene when she found her mother and baby sister. She was walking along a dusty and muddy lane, with many land mimes along the side of the road. She struggled as she walk, because she was famished. It took her the entire day to reach the infirmary.
Loung mustered up courage and asked for permission from the person in charge of the refugee camp, Met Bong, to allow her to have the permission slip to go to the infirmary. This displayed her endurance and resolution to stay alive even though she was all alone stranded in the camp, during the war.
Along the way, she found a small cotton field. As she was hungry, she recalled that the black round seed in the cotton can be eaten, thus tried and it appeased her stomach. This act also refers that at such a young age, she knows many survival skills, and is very ingenious.
She saw many scenarios in the infirmary of people deadly sick, and half-alive, but she still walks across all of them. If I were her, I would definitely be panic stricken, even at the age of fifteen. All these incidents proved, that even a young girl like her is able to go through all the sufferings and pain, what more a teenager or a parent?
The author has definitely given her a wondrous role to inspire many people to be undauntable and fearless at all circumstances. All of us should learn from her that no matter what happens, if there is a will, there will always be a way to carry on.
Loung mustered up courage and asked for permission from the person in charge of the refugee camp, Met Bong, to allow her to have the permission slip to go to the infirmary. This displayed her endurance and resolution to stay alive even though she was all alone stranded in the camp, during the war.
Along the way, she found a small cotton field. As she was hungry, she recalled that the black round seed in the cotton can be eaten, thus tried and it appeased her stomach. This act also refers that at such a young age, she knows many survival skills, and is very ingenious.
She saw many scenarios in the infirmary of people deadly sick, and half-alive, but she still walks across all of them. If I were her, I would definitely be panic stricken, even at the age of fifteen. All these incidents proved, that even a young girl like her is able to go through all the sufferings and pain, what more a teenager or a parent?
The author has definitely given her a wondrous role to inspire many people to be undauntable and fearless at all circumstances. All of us should learn from her that no matter what happens, if there is a will, there will always be a way to carry on.
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