Post A (04/16/08) ENG

Post A (04/16/08) ENG

Cultural Commentary

The country setting is in Cambodia, late 1900s that few are wealthy and the rest of the people are suffering from the poverty, disease, and lack of order in the government. The young girl is the protagonist for the book, who has many sisters and brothers. It is not abnormal to have a lot of sibilings, for most of those are probably not able to survive through their adulthood. Father is called Pa and the mother is called Ma, while the rest of them are called by their name (I am not sure if there was any change in names when the book was translated to Englsh...) From the title, "They First Killed My Fater" it gives readers a clue that it would be something like genocide where innocent people die out from one man or one government's misleading, and the narrator's father is one of many victims. The narrator's family is rather living as a wealthy family, where there are many other children who is suffereing from hunger and homlessness.