5 Comments

• Angkar keeps moving people so the Khmer won't revolt against them.
• The way the chief of Ro Leap speaks reminds me of how I can not understand Cambodians from Cambodia when they talk.
• As I read this book, I find out how much Cambodians suffered in the past.
• The children lost their childhood since the beginning.
• In order to survive, they would eat things I would never tried to eat such as rabbits and rats.

4 Questions

• Isn't 800 a big population for a village?
• If they don't attend school, how will the children learn for to read and write Khmer?
• Does the village chief wants the village to starve to death?
• Why didn't Chong's girls checked with their first to know if the mushrooms were poison or not?

3 Vocabularies

• June bugs(pg. 53)-noun. any of several, brown beetles of the genus Phyllophaga, appearing in the lates springs and early summers.
• Broth(pg.81)-noun. thin soup of concentrated meat or fish.
• Contort(pg.89)-verb.to twist, bend,or draw out.

2 Literally Devices

• "Their twisted trunks, roots, andvines wrapped themselves around the ruins like gigantic boa..."(pg. 67)-Simile, comparing the trees to gigantic boa.
• ""My heart cries"(pg.81)-Personafication, a heart can't really cry out.

Summary-
Loung and her family started to adpat to the life. However to survive they must wrok twice as hard as normal people because they were different. Loung's older brothers leave home to work at camp. Her other brother who was only about ten works at the chief's house in order to bring extra food home, but while working he is abused. Soon, he gets fire. Loung's oldest sister, Keav, also was force to leave home to work at a childern camp. Only months later, Loung's family finds out that she is ill and on her death bed. Loung's family was able to their sister because when they arrived to the camp, Keav pasted away without a final goodbye. Loung then have a flame of hate grow inside of her.

posted by Angellica M. @ 3:05 PM