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Loung’s supervisor at the child soldier training camp. “Met Bong” is a generic title or means of address, rather than a specific name (and Loung briefly has a different Met Bong at her earlier camp). This Met Bong gives the children impassioned propaganda lessons praising the might of the Angkar and denigrating the Vietnamese as savage monsters. Loung spies Met Bong resting her head on a male supervisor’s shoulder, and wonders why she is allowed companionship when the rest are not.
Met Bong Quotes in First They Killed My Father
The First They Killed My Father quotes below are all either spoken by Met Bong or refer to Met Bong. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 16
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In Phnom Penh, Pa once told me the Youns are just like us but with whiter skin and smaller noses. However, Met Bong describes the Youns as savages who are bent on taking over our country and our people. I do not know what to believe. The only world I know beyond this camp is the one Met Bong describes to me. Sitting in the dark, I find myself starting to believe her message about the enemies.
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Chapter 20
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My breath becomes short and shallow; images of the Youns torturing and killing their victims flash before my eyes. I have never seen a Youn and yet these men look remarkably human. They are the same size as our Khmer men and are similarly built … The Youns look more like Ma than many Khmers. They do not look like the devils Met Bong said they were.
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Met Bong Quotes in First They Killed My Father
The First They Killed My Father quotes below are all either spoken by Met Bong or refer to Met Bong. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 16
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In Phnom Penh, Pa once told me the Youns are just like us but with whiter skin and smaller noses. However, Met Bong describes the Youns as savages who are bent on taking over our country and our people. I do not know what to believe. The only world I know beyond this camp is the one Met Bong describes to me. Sitting in the dark, I find myself starting to believe her message about the enemies.
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Chapter 20
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My breath becomes short and shallow; images of the Youns torturing and killing their victims flash before my eyes. I have never seen a Youn and yet these men look remarkably human. They are the same size as our Khmer men and are similarly built … The Youns look more like Ma than many Khmers. They do not look like the devils Met Bong said they were.
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