Loung Ung's Life In Vietnam

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In Cambodia there was a war that people had been killed in and had to work for their life to try to get out of the war. In this essay I will talk about Loung Ung on how she had to survive in the war and have to get out of it with her family. Loung Ung’s childhood was impacted by the war in Cambodia because she had to follow strict rules, she couldn’t attend school, and she had no privacy or freedom.
In the book Ung explains how they no freedom because they had to be watched by the Ankar the whole time.“ In this village, we live by strict rules and regulations set for us by the Angkar. We expect you to follow every rule.’”(Ung 315). This evidence is good because it really explains on how Loung Ung had to deal with in her childhood.
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