What Is Never Fall Down About?

'Never Fall Down': Surviving The Killing Fields

The Killing Fields
The Killing Fields (Khmer: វាលពិឃាត, Khmer pronunciation: [ʋiəl pikʰiət]) are a number of sites in Cambodia where collectively more than a million people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime (the Communist Party of Kampuchea) during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the ...
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Patricia McCormick's new young adult novel tells the story of Arn Chorn-Pond, a real-life survivor of the Cambodian genocide whose musical skills kept him alive.

What is the plot of Never Fall Down?

Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick that tells the story of Arn, a young Cambodian boy who finds himself caught between two warring factions, changing his life forever. Arn is only eleven when the Khmer Rouge first came through his village of Battambang in 1975.

How old is Arn in Never Fall Down?

Arn, the narrator, is an 11-year-old boy when the Khmer Rouge come to his village, where he grew up singing rock 'n' roll and eating ice cream. He's sent to a labor camp where other children all around him disappear in the killing fields, as they come to be called. There is just no nice way to describe a genocide.

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