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How is childhood presented in 'Games at Twilight' and 'The Red Ball'? There are many similarities between the ways that childhood is presented in these two short stories. When acting as a group, the children are frequently portrayed as cruel and aggressive. In 'The Red Ball' the young boy is given a variety of cruel names by other children due to his thin frame, for example 'Thinny Boney' and 'Match-stick foot'. This shows the brutal honesty of children of a young age. In 'Games at Twilight' the children are rough and belligerent, shown by 'the shoves became harder' and the frequent quarrelling of the children over who will be It in their game of hide and seek. In 'Games at Twilight' the children are frequently shown in an animalistic light. The author's use of vocabulary reveals this, for example 'wild', 'maniacal', and 'snarling'. Words such as 'prey', 'stalked' and 'pounded' relate to...

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