FTKMF: Post 4. B.

Dear Loung Ung,
As I have just finished the fourth section of your novel I have begun to feel an extreme sense of anger that you have to towards the new communist government expecially with the new murder of your father. “By the third day, we all know that what we feared most happened. Keav, and now Pa, one by one, the my family.” (107) With this anger you made many silent threats against Pol Pot, the new head of government. “I am going to kill Pol Pot. I hate him and I want to make sure he dies a slow and painful death.” “Don’t say such a thing or you will get hurt.” “I am going to kill him”(108) You also begin to describe his nature. “I will kill Pol Pot, I don’t know him, yet I am certain he is the fattest, slimiest snake on earth.”(108) Throughout this novel it seems as if you are going through an emotional battle also. “Sadness makes me want to die inside. Sadness makes me want to kill myself to escape the hopelessness of my life. Rage makes me want to survive and live so that I may kil. I feed my rage with bloody images of Pol Pot’s slain body being dragged in the dirt.” (108) In the end of the section, you also showed anger against another subject, the gods of the Buddhist religion.“Gods, this cannot happen to me again! If you let my brother die, I will never forgive you. You can just go to hell- for I know there are no gods in the world now,” (114)
I look forward to reading more,
Caitie