FTKMF: Post 1. B.

In the novel, First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung, one particularly interesting difference in relationships was between the mother and the speaker and the father and the speaker. The mother, a stay at home mother, is always perceived as very beautiful with her porcelain skin. “Among her women friends, Ma is admired for her height, slender build, and porcelain white skin.”(2) While her five year old daughter Loung, is not only extremely beautiful, but also extremely troublesome. She like to walk around stomping her feet, just to be different for the more traditional gliding method. “It must be hard for her to have a daughter who does not act like a girl, to be so beautiful and have a daughter like me.”(2) While her father on the other hand, loves her little girl just the way she is. As a leading officer, in the military and a former monk, he appreciates his “diamond-in-the-rough”. “He often says that people just don’t understand how cleverness works in a child and that all these troublesome things I do are actually signs of strength and intelligence.”(4) Loung is always very very fond of her father and always does as she is told when it come to his orders, unlike her mother’s. Loung Ung’s mother is being described and commented as if she is not the most admired family member in her daughter’s eyes. But with a total of nine people in the family it is no wonder why this is true.