Review Of Patricia Mccormick's 'Never Fall Down'

Never Fall Down Book Log #2

Never Fall Down written by Patricia McCormick who is an American Journalist who went to Cambodia to experience and note the revolution in Cambodia. I have read all 211 pages of the book. After the first book log I have learned that the Vietnamese finally recognized the issues happening in Cambodia, so they help the get rid of the Khmer Rouge. Arn was the only child who did not run away from the fight and he ends up going to the hospital for being sick. Then he is discovered by a really nice man that takes him and many other children to New York. He teaches Arn that he was chosen to survive, and to tell the story of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge to the rest of the world. One connection I saw with the book and class material was that many people that go through a struggle in a different country see America as a sign of hope. We see Arn say, ““All the

It was well constructed and the plot flowed perfectly. I loved how this book really connected to the reader emotionally, it was at the point where I was about to tear up. It was so sad how cruel people can be, and how they can just see children starving. One literary tool I really saw the author use was imagery. She does a great job describing pain, for example, “ Me, I eat the tamarind fruit. Very sour and very good. But also give you diarrhea. Already I have diarrhea, but I can’t help it; I still eat the tamarind” (76). This is a great quote describing how hungry Arn is. The most surprising part of the whole book was when Arn woke up at the hospital at the border of Vietnam. When he woke up it was a shock how he got there. Later though we figure out that he was taken there by two elders. I would recommend this book to people who believe bringing refugees in the country is harmful. I would recommend this to them because this book goes to show that people around the world are suffering a lot and dying. We are all humans and we need to help each other