Loung's Uninsecurity Factors

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Loung was a spoiled brat until her father left her like a side chick. Throughout first they killed my father, Lounge took-in the importance of grit factors and insecurity factors to be successful. One factor that led to Loungs success in first they killed my father was grit. Loung had shown grit by not giving up when times had got hard when the Khmer Rouge army invaded her city forcing her to flee because the Khmer Rouge army wanted to create an agrarian society, whose economy is based on producing and maintaining crops and farmland, Pol Pot wanted to conduct his radical experiment to create an equal utopia for all people. However, Loung valiancy availed her to get to America, but her insecurity had gotten in the way from time to time making her believe that nothing good will happen which then later led to her success. …show more content…

Loung has been filled with anger causing her to say how she feels and she does this by saying, “ Sadness makes me want to die inside...I feed my rage with bloody images of Pol Pot’s slain body being dragged in the dirt.” (108) Loung is going through a lot everyone Pol pot had killed her dad. She feels the weak end of the pits of her stomach, but the range in her symbolizes the grit of not giving up to fight back getting revenge on her father killer. Kubic had stated that “the ability to resist temptation and to systematically sacrifice present gratification in pursuit future attainment” (Kubic 3). Loung resistance temptation is most apparent in her temptation to give in death. When she believed that her sadness makes her want to die inside, within moments, her grit changes her mindset, and she believes it’s got to be a way

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