Never Fall down-Describe a Character

Never Fall Down begins with Arn dancing to rock ‘n’ roll and selling ice cream, and ends with him addressing large audiences in America on the horrors he faced in Cambodia. The book itself is quite short but Arn’s journey is a long and hard one. He experiences the terrors of genocide firsthand in the labour camp, where he is forced to work after being separated from his aunt and siblings, and is later handed a gun and forced to become a soldier. While others around him are murdered by the Khmer Rouge or succumb to illness, starvation or exhaustion, Arn manages to survive by following his aunt’s advice of blowing where the wind blows, as well as his own philosophy to never fall down. He does anything in his power to survive, from learning revolutionary songs that are in high-demand by the soldiers and becoming ‘famous’ to doing things that will haunt him in later life.

   The only reason i wrote the summary of the book is because I have finished the book and was fascinated on how the book was. i waned to describe the main character(Arn Chorn-Pond) because as we see the book is a non-fiction meaning that everything we read is true. As representative of Amnesty international and founder of Children of War(pg.212), he has traveled and shared the stage with many around the world. It seems Arm wants to make change. Arn has been speaking out about the genocide in Cambodia ever since the day i n 1984.