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Tjhis essay is in response to the prompt: Compare how both First They Killed My Father and Into The Wild explore the relationship between family and identity.
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Seemingly incompatible stylistically and narratively, Sean Penn’s film adaptation of John Krakauer’s novel Into the Wild and Loung Ung’s harrowing memoir First They Killed My Father are united in their exploration of the connection between family relationships and identity. Family acts as a sustaining force for the child narrator Loung Ung, whose naivety and age expose her to the dangers of war as the middle-class Ungs are forced to flee their comfortable Phnom Penh home. Set in Cambodia during the reign of the Khmer Rouge, the normalisation of starvation, death, and brutality compromises Loung’s physical and emotional survival.
