Explanation:
The brutal regime, in power from 1975-1979, claimed the lives of up to two million people. Under the Marxist leader Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge tried to take Cambodia back to the Middle Ages, forcing millions of people from the cities to work on communal farms in the countryside.
Ramona accepts her new life with grace, grit, and gust.
The excerpt is an example of dramatic irony, as the audience knows something that Jim does not.
