https://padlet.com/gators8/v7js4yjakk7e Laurel Eiber, Kathleen Fedorowicz, Michael Gibbs. Period 4 en-us 2017-03-01 17:45:59 UTC 2017-09-06 14:52:33 UTC hello@padlet.com gators8 https://padlet.com/gators8/v7js4yjakk7e/wish/157110109 The family still maintains some of their humanity by still pursuing their family relationships and they still have desire hope for the future and a better tomorrow. The family does everything they can to stay alive, hoping that the war will soon be over and they'll make it out alive. This has kept them grounded.]]> 2017-03-01 17:47:25 UTC https://padlet.com/gators8/v7js4yjakk7e/wish/157110109 gators8 https://padlet.com/gators8/v7js4yjakk7e/wish/157111588 We do not think that the Khmer Rouge's goals and plan sound good in intention because they seem hypocritical because classes form anyway and any form of ethnic cleansing and forced equity has good intention. By doing this, there's violence and unfairness to groups of people. The government cannot control every action of their people which turns to chaos.]]> 2017-03-01 17:50:58 UTC https://padlet.com/gators8/v7js4yjakk7e/wish/157111588 gators8 https://padlet.com/gators8/v7js4yjakk7e/wish/157114237 One key example was when Loung believed that her family would return home after the 3 days were over. She is overly trusting in adults and their words, and believes that people are always honest. She doesn't understand how the situation requires everyone to work as a unit, each getting fair rations of food and equal opportunity to survive in the family. She doesn't yet realize how big and life changing this experience really is. ]]> 2017-03-01 17:56:31 UTC https://padlet.com/gators8/v7js4yjakk7e/wish/157114237 gators8 https://padlet.com/gators8/v7js4yjakk7e/wish/157116108 After Pa's death, our perception of the novel's mood changed. Although the family still had hope that he would come back, they all knew that he was really gone. For Loung, her life and attitude changed. She finally got the realization of death and how real her situation really is. She finally felt the evil and despair in the world as she said that his death made her want to kill others because she was so filled with hate because of the war.]]> 2017-03-01 18:00:40 UTC https://padlet.com/gators8/v7js4yjakk7e/wish/157116108 gators8 https://padlet.com/gators8/v7js4yjakk7e/wish/157117688 Throughout the progression of the story, her voice has just gotten darker and darker. You can tell that she went from being this happy, carefree kid to being consumed in her own living hell. She's definitely lost her sense of hope and nieve idea that things will go back to the way they used to be. The beginning of the book is very detail oriented and then as the story goes on, things become brief and short, almost as if she no longer wants to talk.]]> 2017-03-01 18:04:36 UTC https://padlet.com/gators8/v7js4yjakk7e/wish/157117688 gators8 https://padlet.com/gators8/v7js4yjakk7e/wish/157119191 Question 1: Who leads the family now that Pa is gone?
Question 2: How does Loung's drive and willingness to fight change as more tragedy strikes their family?
Question 3: How does the family react to more and more deaths? Does the overall shock change?
Prediction 1: Khouy is going to lead the family.
Prediction 2: More family members will die, maybe littlest child.
Comment: This book is way sadder than Maus because it is very focused on the pain and grief that she felt throughout the progression of the stories.]]> 2017-03-01 18:08:58 UTC https://padlet.com/gators8/v7js4yjakk7e/wish/157119191 gators8 https://padlet.com/gators8/v7js4yjakk7e/wish/157121001 Americans were definitely oblivious to the tragedy, none of us knew about it until this book. We feel that if America isn't somehow involved in the conflict, we almost turn our backs to the pain and tragedy so that we don't have to admit that something terrible is occurring in our world. After the Vietnam war, many people zoned out in a sense and didn't want to hear about more bad things taking place around us.]]> 2017-03-01 18:13:08 UTC https://padlet.com/gators8/v7js4yjakk7e/wish/157121001 gators8 https://padlet.com/gators8/v7js4yjakk7e/wish/157122174 I don't think that America's version of a genocide was salvery because we pretty much went through all the genocide steps (#1-6, and #8) but not the extermination step. It's not really similar to what has happened in Cambodia. It was to cleanse anything but more to take advantage of African-Americans.]]> 2017-03-01 18:16:55 UTC https://padlet.com/gators8/v7js4yjakk7e/wish/157122174 gators8 https://padlet.com/gators8/v7js4yjakk7e/wish/157122866 The italics of the deaths of Keav and Pa effected my reading of their accounts by Loung seeming like a ghost looking at the situation. She feels helpless because she was not there to help save her. It was her imagining what they both went through and her imagination can take her anywhere, thinking of the worst possible scenarios for both of their deaths. ]]> 2017-03-01 18:19:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gators8/v7js4yjakk7e/wish/157122866