Chapters 4 & 5 - First They Killed My Father
CHAPTERS 4 & 5 - First They Killed My Father
While on the road, there is almost no mention of the color red. In fact, in chapter 4, the word red is not written once. Instead many things are described as black and gray: Loung's Hair, or the children's bags under their eyes. Even the vegetation is described as brown. "Tall elephant grass and prickly, brown bush have replaced Phnom Penh's blooming flowers and tall trees" (Ung 24). Brown is a combination of black and red. Ung is showing that the only red left in her world is dulled down by darkness. The only red that appears in these chapters is in Loung’s dreams, where she pictures the lunar new year. A Chinese celebration with lots of fireworks, red fireworks. The only place red shoes up is in loung’s dreams, as the world aerobic her is being consumed by darkness.
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