First They Killed My Father Essay

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There was book and movie that I heard is “First They Killed My Father”, by Loung Ung. This book and movie was about the perspective of herself as a little girl, and her family. Her family lives in a third world country and then had to be imported by soldiers. Also, as from the title, she then loses her father and mother too from leaving a camp she was in. These moments in the book are memorizing but relatable to another book, “Understanding Politics”. This is a textbook I am reading, and a few moments in this textbook’s chapters are relatable. Let me first tell you a few moments that caught my eyes, and then I’ll show the relatable moments from the book and movie, to this textbook. The first scene that I first got my eye on from the book is, the …show more content…

Their Camp was a camp where all men and women and children were treated equal, there have to wear uniforms, they have to work hard together, and also they only get small amount portions of food. She says that it was a little bit like a torture to her but coming from the textbook, this was considered communism. Communism is an ideology of everyone being treated equal and having equal rights with each other. This version of Communism is similar to Marxism. Marxism is a theory created by a man named Karl Marx, thinking that there will be no such thing as higher or lower classes. It 's pretty much similar to the movie where everyone wears uniforms and there 's no such thing as one controlling the other but mostly coming from the movie, a few soldiers are controlling most of the women and children while they are doing work. This idea can be ethical but judging by how your population control is, there has to be another way for everyone to do what they need to do to survive, and not just usual with everybody you have to survive with farming, clothing for warmth,