First They Killed My Father Book Report

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Ung, Loung. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. Print
This book helped me see Loung Ung View as a child on what happened in her life during the Killing Fields Period. This book shows the struggles that she faced to become who she was today. It shows the terrible experiences she faced under the Pol Pot's Regime. And how she managed to survive through, losing her family and slowey reunited with her family. This book helps us see how one child's life has changed, and how society has been destroyed and the bonds between humans has changed.

Ngor, Haing, Roger Warner, and Haing Ngor. Survival in the Killing Fields. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003. Print.
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This book demonstrates to us her struggle to survive in the jungle during the Khmer Rouge Regime. She tells us the troubles that she faces throughout the book and how her life has been affected by the atrocious period. I was able to gain a lot of knowledge from this book. And how this era of time has changed her, even after she was able to leave to go to America.

Pran, Dith, and Kim DePaul. Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1997. Print.
This book is full of memoirs from people who have survived under the Khmer Rouge Regime. The First Memoir I read was from Sophiline Cheam Shapiro, there she talks about the songs that the enemies taught her during the Regime, and it also provides us the actual lyrics to the song, last she talks to us about January 7th 1979, when the Vietnamese liberated Cambodia. The Next Memoir was told by Chath Piersath, there he talks about a letter that he has written to his mother.
In his memoir he talks about has family bonds and how they have been broken due to the Khmer Rouge. And life can never be the same, families have lost there loved ones. Another memoir

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