What forms of physical and psychological trauma do the protagonists encounter? Please describe the narrator’s life before the Khmer Rouge took over.
Until the age of five, Loung Ung and her family led a happy and relatively carefree life in Cambodia's capital Phnom Pen. Ung's father was a high ranking government official and Ing was one of the family's seven children, enjoying the open-air markets in the city, eating fried crickets, watching chickens fight and mildly disobeying her parents. After the Khmer Rouge took over, peiole were systematically killed, tortured, maimed, and jailed.
