When Broken Glass Floats _ 12/16 - 12/20
When Broken Glass Floats - Chanrithy Him
When Broken Glass Floats is a true story and the recollection of events that happened during the Cambodian genocide. Chanrithy Him was only a child when the war came upon her home, and at eleven years old, she's lost most of her family to the Khemer Rouge. Her mother is in the hospital, dying, her baby brother is sick, and her three older sisters are in forced labor camps far away, risking their lives to sneak tiny amounts of food to her and her starving brother. Her father, brothers and other sister have all died, either by illness or by the hands of the Khemer Rouge.
"'The Khemer Rouge threw your mom in a well... and she was alive,' sputters the girl, her sharp eyes looking into mine. Her words sink in. No! The core of my soul screams out from a deep hidden place... the pain of losing Mak comes fiercely, without respite. It lingers inside me, lodged like a root. How much will I cry when Mak dies? Now I know."
Athy's mother had dysentery, and she had been forced to go to the hospital if she could not work. She didn't want to go to the hospital, since two of her children had died there, but she can't work and has to. A few weeks later, Athy and her baby brother, Map, go to visit her to find that she has become worse, more sick than she was before. They promise to come back soon, but she dies before they can go. Athy had been strong when her father and four siblings died, but losing her mother is different. She finally feels the pain of the camps and their life under the Khemer Rouge now that she's lost the most important person to her.
When Broken Glass Floats is a true story and the recollection of events that happened during the Cambodian genocide. Chanrithy Him was only a child when the war came upon her home, and at eleven years old, she's lost most of her family to the Khemer Rouge. Her mother is in the hospital, dying, her baby brother is sick, and her three older sisters are in forced labor camps far away, risking their lives to sneak tiny amounts of food to her and her starving brother. Her father, brothers and other sister have all died, either by illness or by the hands of the Khemer Rouge.
"'The Khemer Rouge threw your mom in a well... and she was alive,' sputters the girl, her sharp eyes looking into mine. Her words sink in. No! The core of my soul screams out from a deep hidden place... the pain of losing Mak comes fiercely, without respite. It lingers inside me, lodged like a root. How much will I cry when Mak dies? Now I know."
Athy's mother had dysentery, and she had been forced to go to the hospital if she could not work. She didn't want to go to the hospital, since two of her children had died there, but she can't work and has to. A few weeks later, Athy and her baby brother, Map, go to visit her to find that she has become worse, more sick than she was before. They promise to come back soon, but she dies before they can go. Athy had been strong when her father and four siblings died, but losing her mother is different. She finally feels the pain of the camps and their life under the Khemer Rouge now that she's lost the most important person to her.
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