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Cambodian Genocide
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Cambodian Genocide
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English 9-1
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3. Background Took place in Cambodia Khmer Rouge took over the government
Wanted to make Cambodia an agrarian society
Khmer made the people work till death and killed mass amounts of people
Khmer lead by Pol Pot
Targeted anybody in urban areas, left rural people mostly alone

4. Selected Art Artist: Vann Nath Title: Artist in His Cell
Survivor of the Khmer Rouge prison S-21
Lived because he was a talented artist

5. Artist is His Cell Painted in 1980 a year after the Khmer Rouge ended
Made in Cambodia
Created to show the torture he endured at S-21, the secret prison the Khmer
Helped raise awareness to how truly horrific it was
Shows a portrait of him in his cell during his torture
Nath has painted numerous more paintings showcasing terrible events committed by the Khmer Rouge

6. Visual Imagery in Artist is His Cell
The extremely thin arms, legs, and ribs
The visual imagery shows the awful conditions he had to suffer in

7. Imagery in Night
“From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me” (Wiesel 115).
Visual imagery shows how tortured and beat-up he was in the terrible conditions

8. Imagery Comparison Both symbolize torture and terrible conditions
Both show people who were in awful health and barely alive
Both help to realize the depressed and awful tone

9. Motif In Artist is His Cell
Hunger
Displayed by his poor health and tiny cell

10. Motif In Night
Hunger
“I was nothing but a body. Perhaps even less: a famished stomach. The stomach alone was measuring time” (Wiesel 52).

11. Motif Comparison Both show the hunger the survivors had
Both were in a prison
Both create a tone of desperation
Hunger is a common motif in all genocides and used a tool for controlling people

12. Works Cited
Nath, Vann. Artist in His Cell Oil on canvas. Private collection.
Wiesel, Elie Wiesel. Night. N.p.: Hill and Wang, Print.

13. Background Took place in Cambodia Khmer Rouge took over the government
Wanted to make Cambodia an agrarian society
Khmer made the people work till death and killed mass amounts of people
Khmer lead by Pol Pot
Targeted anybody in urban areas, left rural people mostly alone

14. Selected Art Artist: Vann Nath Title: Artist in His Cell
Survivor of the Khmer Rouge prison S-21
Lived because he was a talented artist

15. Artist is His Cell Painted in 1980 a year after the Khmer Rouge ended
Made in Cambodia
Created to show the torture he endured at S-21, the secret prison the Khmer
Helped raise awareness to how truly horrific it was
Shows a portrait of him in his cell during his torture
Nath has painted numerous more paintings showcasing terrible events committed by the Khmer Rouge

16. Visual Imagery in Artist is His Cell
The extremely thin arms, legs, and ribs
The visual imagery shows the awful conditions he had to suffer in

17. Imagery in Night
“From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me” (Wiesel 115).
Visual imagery shows how tortured and beat-up he was in the terrible conditions

18. Imagery Comparison Both symbolize torture and terrible conditions
Both show people who were in awful health and barely alive
Both help to realize the depressed and awful tone

19. Motif In Artist is His Cell
Hunger
Displayed by his poor health and tiny cell

20. Motif In Night
Hunger
“I was nothing but a body. Perhaps even less: a famished stomach. The stomach alone was measuring time” (Wiesel 52).

21. Motif Comparison Both show the hunger the survivors had
Both were in a prison
Both create a tone of desperation
Hunger is a common motif in all genocides and used a tool for controlling people

22. Works Cited
Nath, Vann. Artist in His Cell Oil on canvas. Private collection.
Wiesel, Elie Wiesel. Night. N.p.: Hill and Wang, Print.