'The Gold-Legged Frog' by Khamsing Srinwark - Consider the view that Nak is born to suffer and that the life of the rice farmer is anything but lucky.

... 'The Gold-Legged Frog' by Khamsing Srinwark Consider the view that Nak is born to suffer and that the life of the rice farmer is anything but lucky. The character of Nak is born into a life of hardship and there are many things that make his life seem anything but lucky. The environment of the country that Nak lives in and depends on is difficult and hostile. Early morning it is freezing cold "the morning cold had pierced his bones" but by mid day the sun is so hot it is hard just to work outside "the sun blazed", "he knew it meant giddiness and sunstroke", Nak relies on the land and so the harsh climate does not make it easy. Nak as a rice farmer relies on the earth and his crops but his environment makes this another hardship, the land is stricken with "drought, want, disaster and death" the fields are

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