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1) Why did the Cambodian people allow the Khmer Rouge to herd them into the countryside to work twenty hour days on ill thought out projects that they…more
1) Why did the Cambodian people allow the Khmer Rouge to herd them into the countryside to work twenty hour days on ill thought out projects that they would never finish, moving along to the next and then the next, starved and brutalized and murdered?
2) How did the Khmer Rouge think this was going anywhere other than well?
3) The thing about the Khmer Rouge is that they were always lying, getting the people's hopes up that they could eat the crops they slaved over. Were they lying because they also had no idea what they were doing?
4) Did you know that eating burned food is an old-old school way to stem the effects of dysentery?
5) How do you go about still being a person when what makes you a person is taken away from you?
6) How could he put up with all those injustices and arbitrariness?
7) What was the reason for so much sacrifice, death and pain?
8) Why isn't this Genocide mentioned whatsoever in western education?
9) There was more language in there than I would've liked, but what can you expect from a survival account like this?
10) Did this book make you want to explore the Khmer Rouge more?
11) Of all the information presented in the book, what has stayed you the most?
12) What did you Google while reading the book?
13) Did you find Haing Ngor's story compelling?
14) How did the memoir make you reflect on your own life?
15) What did you learn from hearing this person's story?
16) Are there any people in the book whose perspective you wanted?
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