First They Killed My Father

I forgot to post the last blog post about the book. During this section in the book they were in the village and they were instructed what to do within the village. I found it rather cruel the way the people were treated throughout the book. While they were in the camp i mean. Outside the camp when she had her life they seemed to be quite well off. Luong seemed to be very attached to a few things in this book that seemed to be shown in many different ways. Many of her morals and values were shown indirectly which i liked. The author did a great job of also keeping a great sense of how she felt and also keeping the story along at a very fast pace.

I found parts of this book very sad such as the "picking corn" part. The author described the scenario very well which made it all the more sad. She seemed to do it very well throughout the whole book.

The part where the girls were trained as soldiers was sad as well. I thought they were not treated too poorly yet there was still some really bad things going on within the camp. Even though the girls were treated very well they were also forced into many other things such as marriage.

Overall i thought "First They Killed My Father" was a very well written book. I found the writing style of Luong Ung very unique but it made the book a lot better because of the way she described things. I did have some questions on the book that i will ask my group mates during class but i just found the book very good. I think France was talking about a sequel as well so i would be interested in reading that as well.