Final Discussion Response

On your blog, start a discussion about one of the following topics.  Post the topic prompt, your ideas, and at least two questions for classmate response.  

You must comment on two other classmates discussion posts. 

Multiple people can choose the same topic.  

You must reply to a minimum of two of the comments on your own blog discussion topic.  

Topics: 

Be sure to cite specific evidence from the book(s) in your discussion post.  

• Another author might have used these personal experiences to write a novel. If you had been living in Cambodia during this period, would you have written of your experiences as fiction or non-fiction? Why? In drawing attention to a particular event is fiction or non-fiction the most powerful? Discuss with reference to other books you have read yourself or studied in school. (Hint:  Into the Wild!)

• This book is concerned with murder and family tragedy yet some reviewers have written of it as “life affirming”. What do they mean by this? Do you agree? Is First they killed my father a celebration of family life or a criticism of families?  

• The theme of revenge occurs throughout the book. Find at least two specific examples and cite them with page numbers.  In some of these Loung states that hatred is keeping her alive. How do you think she means this? Against whom does she wish to take revenge? 

• Write two paragraphs. In the first write a pen sketch of Loung drawn from her self-portrait in the first two chapters. In the second paragraph describe Loung as she prepares to board the plane taking her from Bangkok to America. How much time has passed since the first paragraph? How has she changed? 

*Your discussion post is due Tuesday Dec. 3 at 8am

**Your comments on two classmates posts are due Thursday Dec. 5 at 8am

***Your replies (2) to classmates comments are due Friday Dec. 6 at 8am