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The people living at the dump are stuck in this cycle of a life they can't escape. Nothing changes. You can't go anywhere if you just stand still.

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Sang Ly has now made a way for Nisay to make it out of the dump life. By learning how to read and to write, she has provided a way to make a better life for himself

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People living at the dump are too afraid to stand up and take charge of theirs lives because it's what everyone does

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While following the crowd, Sang Li lives in a dump and does nothing to try and change it until she learns that she has the opportunity to read. Through reading she can have a better life for her and her family. This is hard because the normal way of people is to just work hard to pick up trash and survive life, there is no thought of doing extra things like reading. People consider it a waste of time and effort because there is no immediate gain. As she goes against the crowd she learns the benefits of reading.

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It will likely be a very stable society when many are just doing as others are

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Everyone has the same routine of picking trash and going to their house and the dump. Sang Ly does something about it and learns to read so she can teach Nissay and they open their world to new jobs by not following the crowd.

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When people follow the crowd, they can learn from each other. An example is when Lucky Fat's friend that died taught him how to pick trash.

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People are used to bad things happening. Like children getting abandoned, getting mugged, getting run over. Everyone is used to this, which is not great

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Everyone picking trash isn't a very good way of making money.

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Sang Ly follows the crowd that knows how to read books and decided to learn

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Sang Ly and her husband don't tell the police about problems which makes it so the corrupt police can't take advantage of them.

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If Sang Ly did not know what to do for her son, she can see that many people go to charity doctors. That helped her son with his sickness.

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Sang Ly is trying to learn to read so she can stand out and make a better life for nisay

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People may have a lack of education and be unable to do many things, such as being illiterate, which Sang Ly would be if she hadn't broken away from the crowd

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All the people who knew how to read and write got killed and now any few do.

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Change both good and bad happens more when you're not following the crowd.

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Because when everyone picks up trash they follow each other they are looking over already picked through trash.

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Since people follow the crowd by not picking out of the flaming ashes, this can protect them from getting burnt.

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If you decide to be exactly like others there will be no difference and the choices you make will not be made by you anymore because you made the choice to put your decisions in other people's hands.

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The garbage truck drivers are taught to just run people over and that is what happened to Lucky Fats friend.

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There is safety in numbers, the more people there are the less likely you are to get hurt. This makes the garbage collecting crowds safer.

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People learn from each other strategies to pick up trash in the safest way as well as how to avoid getting run over by a truck by following what everyone else does.

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Everyone in the dump understands and knows what it is like to be in the dump for other people.

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No one would teach their kids to write and to read out of fear. Now all of Stung Meanchey is illiterate because of fear of retaliation

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People know what they're doing and they get good at their job.

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All of the residents in Stung Meanchey live the same lives in the sense that all of them pick through trash all day. The dump has provided a steady way to make a living

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Following the crowd by not picking at night can be a good thing because picking at night is more dangerous

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People will never really make it out of their bad lives because they rely on just being garbage men with hardly any income at all

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In "The Rent Collector", one negative is that Sopeap chose to be a greedy rent collector, instead of trying to improve her situation of others. She chose to be greedy like the Khmer Rouge, in a way.

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everybody is just okay with their steady life meaning no one in the crowd is trying to change anything meaning they are just going to stay in the dump.

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Sang Ly and Ki Lim don't drink even though lots of others at the dump drink.

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everyone follows the crowd when the trash people come to dump trash this is good because none of them get crushed.

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Everyone lives their life and minds their own business and no one gets hurt or bothered. (The gangs don't follow the crowd)

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Everyone follows each other and picks up a lot of garbage which unhealthy and really gross.

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Sang learned to read and now she can help her son. If she hadn't chosen to go off the beaten path, she would be illiterate still.

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Ki follows the crowd when he picks trash. This means he has less risk of dying from toxic gasses even if that means less money.

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You can never achieve your full potential by staying in your comfort zone.

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Sang Ly was able to learn how to read when she broke free from following the crowd and gave Sopeap a chance

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The truck drivers follow the crowd and don´t care about all the people collecting trash and run them over most likely killing them.

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The people in the dump follow the other stragies that people use to collect trash. So if someone finds a good and profitable stratigy others will also use it.

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the trash people run people over

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Nobody questions possible negative power structures or systems in the society

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most everyone picks trash in the morning and that results to less trash.

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Everybody just tries to live day by day at the dump and a lot of people don't try to stand out. This is bad because this means that they will never move past the horrible life at the dump.

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Positive and negative ways people followed the crowd in rent collector

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Positive and negative ways people followed the crowd in rent collector

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Ki lim likes his living situation because it's stable and they are following the crowd of people living at stung meanchey. But because he likes their stable living situation neither of them are striving to find a better home or job anywhere.

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people sometimes help each other survive in the dump

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Before Ki got injured he had to compete with a lot of people to get salvage from the trucks.

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People learn from each other on who to pick up trash like following the trucks and people have to follow the crowd to do that.

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Some may have followed the crowd by calling Sopeap names because others were.

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People follow the crowd picking up trash and this can be good because they can find stuff like the book and change there lives.

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If Sang Ly had decided to follow everyone else and choose not to read, she would not have something to look forward to. She wouldn't have something to look forward to teaching her son.

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Nobody increases their quality of life by following everyone else.

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People can end up doing things beneficial for themselves by following the others such as working

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lots of people build little shelters in the trash dump for them and others to use

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Even though other people werent doing it, Lucky Fat decided to collect buddha figurines.

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Everyone is used to doing the same things every day, so not many are willing to do something new. People are shocked when Sang Ly decides to learn how to read. not many others are willing to try new things.

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Sang Ly was following other peoples examples to treat Nisay & she kept listening to people even though nothing was working.

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People follow the crowd by picking from the trucks. This can be bad sometimes if they get ran over.

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Because of the tyrants in Cambodia, no one knew how to read and no one questioned it. They followed the crowd all the way to illiteracy

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When people follow the crowd to build homes in the trash it is beneficial to their life because they will have homes.

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One way that the characters follow the crowd, is that they all hear others calling Sopeap Sin names and then they join in too.

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Ki follows the crowd and manages to get somewhat good salvage from the garbage trucks.

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people clean up trash

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Sang Ly decided to not follow the crowd when she asked Sopeap Sin how to read because most people at Stung Meanchey can't read except Sopeap. This is positive because it could lead to a better life for her family.

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Ki didn't die because he chose to not stand up to the gang.