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Imagery and Motifs

Imagery and Motifs . Jennifer Salce English 9-1 2/27/14. Cambodian Genocide. Took place in Cambodia, Asia in 1975 The Khmer Rouge took over the Cambodian government and declared a peasant-oriented society

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Imagery and Motifs

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  1. Imagery and Motifs Jennifer Salce English 9-1 2/27/14

  2. Cambodian Genocide • Took place in Cambodia, Asia in 1975 • The Khmer Rouge took over the Cambodian government and declared a peasant-oriented society • The Khmer Rouge forced all Cambodians to work continuously and those who were unable to keep up were often killed • Citizens who were suspected of being educated were tortured at a prison called Tuol Sleng • In four years, between 1.7 and 2 million Cambodians were killed • The genocide ended in 1979

  3. Selected Art Artist: Vann Neth, a survivor of the Cambodian Genocide and the Tuol Sleng prison Vann Neth was imprisoned for his ability to paint and in the prison was forced to to paint images of the genocide. The visual imagery in this painting shows a prisoner being beaten by a Khmer Rouge soldier. You can also see in the painting that the prisoner is extremely thin, which indicates that he has been starved in the prison

  4. Kinesthetic Imagery in Night • “I no longer felt anything except the lashes of the whip. ‘One!...Two!’ he was counting. He took his time between lashes. Only the first really hurt” (Wiesel 57). • Elie describes his punishment of a whipping • This imagery shows how cruel the offices were toward the victims of the Holocaust

  5. How the Two Compare • Both show the cruelty toward the prisoners of each genocide • Both show how the officers of the prisons dealt with the people • Both imageries foreshadow many deaths in both genocides

  6. Motif in Both Imageries • A motif in both the painting by Vann Neth and the kinesthetic imagery in Night is the cruelty and abuse both had dealt with. • In the painting, it shows a visual image of a prisoner being beaten and in Night, Elie describes his whipping which shows the cruelty throughout both genocides • In both imageries, it is also implied that both genocides used starvation as a method of abuse • This foreshadows that not everyone would make it in the genocide • This creates a theme of humans trying to dominate each other for their own power and selfish goals

  7. Works Cited Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights. WorldPress, n.d. Web. 26 Feb. 2014. <http://blogs.ucc.ie/wordpress/ccjhr/2011/09/06/remembering-vann-nath/>. Neth, Vann. Tuol Sleng Prisoner. N.d. Illustration. United to End Genocide. Washington, DC, n.d. Web. 25 Feb. 2014. <http://endgenocide.org/learn/past-genocides/>. Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006. Print.

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