FTKMF: Post 2. B.

While Loung’s very large family barely survives on the long and deadly road away from their home city and their happy past, we learn about this new government. The Khmer Rouge is rebel government that comes to power after a long civil was in Cambodia. The new government does not like city dwellers or past government officials and soldiers. In this dreadful communist government, the very poor common people are joyously praised and the hard working rich are violently shamed with cruelty and possibly death. “Uncle Heang have lived in the countryside since before the revolution and have never lived in a city. The Khmer Rouge considers them uncorrupted model citizens for their new society.”(37) Throughout this next section the Ung family lives with their uncles, pretending to be from the country. As Loung starts to adapt to her new lifestyle in this new corrupt and violent government, she starts to deeply fear that the soldiers who had told her people that they would be returning to their city town of Phnom Penh have been lying. “My body trembles with fear and disbelief. I am never going home. I will never see Phnom Penh again, rive in our car, ride a cyclo with Ma to the markets, buy food from the carts. All that is gone. He reaches out and takes me into his arms as my eyes water and lips tremble.”(40)