First They Killed My Father

So pretty much i thought the first part of the book was pretty good (I left off at probably the most suspenseful part ever in the book). First off i just wanted to point out that the title just seems so sad, but back to the book. I found it rather slow at first because it was just giving an overview of Loung Ung's life. Besides the fact that it was slow and boring for the first part where she explained her life as a child and her daily routines and what not, i found her life quite interesting. How she got up very early every morning and went to eat the noodles at the restaurant. I think the noodles seemed like Pho but i could be wrong. I think for her family's life they seemed to be in the upper class because Loung Ung seems to be not so much to the point of spoiled but in between spoiled and regularly treated. I was somewhat confused about the Khmer Rouge army. Where did they come from? Who sent them? All of these questions were haunting me because these soldiers just randomly popped up into the story and took them hostage and take them to camps to be trained as soldiers. This part where they were taken to these camps kind of reminded me of the Nazi camps and what they did to the jewish people. I am just using it as an analogy. Pretty much the book is getting better than it was before and i am running out of stuff to say about it. I hope Loung Ung and her family make it out alive so they can be together again. It must be hard for her to be without her family all alone in a camp training to become a child soldier for the Khmer Rouge.