Explain the significance of the final paragraph in page 79 of the book
The author says he would like to say he feels he has become a better person for going on the trip, yet in the same paragraph says he isn’t a better person for it. My interpretation is that if he does nothing he will be a coward, without a cause, and with no aim. He took a trip hoping to discover the truth yet in the truth he found so much emptiness. The author is bound to believe that he needs the world to know that Cambodia is a place that has much pain. The author is echoing the cry for help from the people. He has seen the destruction and feels the call to speak out against it. I feel the power in the words “the torturers and the killers had been children” (pg73). The image and the grotesque of children killing others by bare shovels and picks is a gloomy imagination of the hopes for Cambodia. It is necessary for more people to see Cambodia for what it really is. The attention and possible media would be the start of a new beginning for the location’s betterment. Yet if he does nothing he is not made a better person especially because he has seen the truth. Ergo, attention brings light on the truths and the truths will bring light for the need of attention.
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