Section 1 Questions
Chapters 1-4, pages 1-27
Knowledge Question: How many siblings does Loung have? What are their names?
Answer: Loung has a total of six siblings; three brothers and three sisters. Their names from oldest to youngest are: Meng, Khouy, Keav, Kim, Chou, Geak.
Comprehension Question: Explain in your own words why adults call Loung ugly?
Answer: Adults call Loung ugly because it is believed that a monster will take a child to a horrible place if the child receives too much attention.
Application Question: With what you have read in chapters 1-3, how would you try and help the homeless and poor people in Cambodia.
Loung describes many people on the streets begging for food, or money and children running naked through the streets attempting to do the same thing. I would try to start some sort of non-profit organization to help people out when they need it. Cambodia also needs more unskilled jobs in order for people to come out of poverty. Making it mandatory for children to go to school would also help the children that come from poorer family’s come out of poverty when they grow up. Even going to school a few days a week would help.
Analysis Question: Compare the ways that Ma and Pa view Loung.
Answer: Ma views Loung as troublesome and un-lady like. Ma also continuously compares Loung to her siblings, and she wishes that Loung would simply sit still, not ask questions and grow up quickly. Pa on the other hand encourages Loung to be herself, ask questions and to act her age. Pa is quoted “Loung is too smart and clever for people to understand.”
Synthesis Question: Write a diary entry from Loung’s point of view as they are leaving the city.
Answer:
Dear Diary,
I don’t know what is happening, the soldiers are scream...
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..., eat pretty well, stay in uncle’s hut, and keep to themselves.
Anlungthmor Village – small hut raised three feet off the ground, bamboo leaves and straw for walls and roof, entire family sleeps underneath mosquito net in the hut, grows food in back of the hut to supplement rations, Khmer Rouge soldiers patrolling, Pa and the two oldest boys work from dawn to dusk, eventually, Meng, Khouy and other young men leave for three days a week to find food to ration to the village, flooding.
Ro Leap – everyone wears the same clothes and has the same haircut to show that everyone is equal, different names for mother and father must be used, communal system, everything belongs to the Angkar, everyone works even children, Kim works for the Chiefs sons; he is beaten by these so called friends but he gets to bring home their leftovers.
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In Pa Chin's Family, he portrays a traditional Confucian family battling to keep their traditions and their way of life in tact, amidst the deep upheaval and civil disorder gripping China. Pa Chin clearly portrays a family of which the Venerable Master Kao rules supreme at the expense of his family. The Kao family runs into several set backs such as suicide, death, depression, unhappy marriages, family conflict, and lack of respect for elders that undoubtedly lead to the unraveling of the Kao family. One significant reason the Kao family fails to maintain its integrity and way of life is because of the clash between Confusion traditionalism and Chinese cultural modernization. One of the main driving forces in disruption in Kao family tradition would have to be the rebellious youth, Chueh-min, Chueh-hui, and Chin in particular.
The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick explores the causes and challenges of homelessness in today's youth. It highlights the struggles that a victim of homelessness would go through, such as finding a place to sleep every night, and finding a source of food and money. The Simple Gift also showed some causes of homelessness, which were demonstrated in the book through out the story.
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The Ung’s moved from one place to another just to keep their family together. Because their father was a former government worker, the Khmer Rouge would have killed him if they found out because they think anyone with an education is a threat to their dictatorship. For months they were on the road. Walking in the hot sun, starving and it was very hard for them to stay together. It was the hardest on Loung because she desperately wanted to be somewhere she can call “home” somewhere like Phnom Penh. But that was difficult considering they had to move to anot...
Throughout the years 1975-1979 the Communist Khmer Rouge Regime party held control of the Cambodia and instituted the Angkar government system. In this system evolution and change was frowned upon. Intellectuals like students, teachers, monks, government officials, military workers, etc were considered corrupt. In the eyes of the Angkar, a model citizen was a peasant farmer who lived in the countryside and did not own any type of technology or possess any Western influence. Intellectuals (i.e. people who lived in cities like Phnom Penh) were forced to evacuate their homes and move into villages in the countryside. These villages were controlled by village chiefs and soldiers from the Khmer Rouge regime. The new villagers were forced to work long hours in the rice fields and the community gardens with
The Communist Party of Kampuchea, also known as the Khmer Rouge, took control of Cambodia on April 17, 1975, which lasted until January 1979. For their three-year, eight-month, and twenty-one day rule of Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge committed some of the most heinous crimes in current history. The main leader who orchestrated these crimes was a man named Pol Pot. In 1962, Pol Pot had become the coordinator of the Cambodian Communist Party. The Prince of Cambodia, Norodom Sihanouk, did not approve of the Party and forced Pol Pot to flee to exile in the jungle. There, Pol formed a fortified resistance movement, which became known as the Khmer Rouge, and pursued a guerrilla war against Sihanouk’s government. As Pol Pot began to accumulate power, he ruthlessly imposed an extremist system to restructure Cambodia. Populations of Cambodia's inner-city districts were vacated from their homes and forced to walk into rural areas to work. All intellectuals and educated people were eradicated and together with all un-communist aspects of traditional Cambodian society. The remaining citizens were made to work as laborers in various concentration camps made up of collective farms. On these farms, people would harvest the crops to feed their camps. For every man, woman, and child it was mandatory to labor in the fields for twelve to fifteen hours each day. An estimated two million people, or twenty-one percent of Cambodia's population, lost their lives and many of these victims were brutally executed. Countless more of them died of malnourishment, fatigue, and disease. Ethnic groups such as the Vietnamese, Chinese, and Cham Muslims were attacked, along with twenty other smaller groups. Fifty percent of the estimated 425,000 Chinese living in Cambod...
In a Khmer Rouge prison camp, Arn finds motivation to survive when he finds his sister, whom he loves and cares for. In 1974, the country that Arn lived in named Cambodia was taken over by a group of communists called the Khmer Rouge. These Khmer Rouge tortured the Cambodians by making them work almost all day and night in rice fields and also starved them by feeding them tiny portions of rice. In result, lots of Cambodians gave up on life because they had no motivation to live and no hope. Arn also went through this torture and was forced to live in these terrible conditions, but describes how he regained his motivation to live when he finds his sister, “Long time ago I kill all hope in myself. And live only like animal, survive one day, then one day more.
Most people feel that they should help the needy in some way or another. The problem is how to help them. This problem generally arises when there is a person sitting on the side of the road in battered clothes with a cardboard sign asking for some form of help, almost always in the form of money. Yet something makes the giver uneasy. What will they do with this money? Do they need this money? Will it really help them? The truth of the matter is, it won't. However, there are things that can be done to help the needy. Giving money to a reliable foundation will help the helpless, something that transferring money from a pocket to a man's tin can will never do.
After a day of work or school, most continue on their way home. Instead of getting in a car, they walk. Walking into their house, they go for a snack, there is no food there. In fact, they don’t have a house at all. This is a life for people living though the Burma Conflict. Most people do not have anything to go home to, which is what makes this interesting. Many think that it is just another place with homeless people, but it is much more than that.
Kenyon, Thomas. L. What you can do to help the homeless. New York: Simon & Schuster. 1991. Print.
(Transition: Know you understand how big the problem of homelessness is and how you can help)
More fortunate people must also be willing to help their fellow citizens in need. Volunteer programs should be overflowing with people who want to help. For example, Habitat for Humanity is one organization who builds houses for the needy. If everyone dedicated some of their extra time and money in organizations that help "poor" people, poverty would begin to see a decrease. There are many other organizations that help "poor" people, and if everyone pitches in, one world problem may be diminished in the future.