Mey Son Sotheary's My Sister

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Mey Son Sotheary was eighteen years old when she started writing and most her work focused on the social issues arising from social confusion concerning radical changes of politics and economics. Reading her work on” My Sister” it appears she grew up in a family of three children and her father seems to have a better job in the family. Therefore, after reading this piece of literature and looking back at the motives behind her work it would be reasonable to review this reading with the Marxist theory which uses economic systems as a basis for analyzing literature.
It appears that the narrator is from the countryside, but enjoys taking strolls with his younger sister to the city where they enjoy the sight of the city night life, modern cars,

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