An Analysis Of Sundara's Life In Cambodia

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Sundara and her family lived in Cambodia, and we live in America. There are lots of different things about stuff we do and use to what they use. Like how we are have computers, tvs, phones, and newer technologies. In Cambodia they have radiators but they don’t have tvs or computers or phones. When you move schools and states you don’t feel like you fit in like Sundara, when she first moved to Cambodia she was trying so hard to fit into her school but in the book it said that four years later, she is now fitting in more. In Cambodia you had to date or marry somebody that was Cambodia. When Sundara is at her aunt and uncle’s house she flees from Cambodia with her aunt, Soka, her grandma, and her uncle, Naro, to escape the 1975 takeover of the

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