Gold Legged Frog and The red Ball.
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Explore the ways in which a families struggle against poverty is presented in "The Gold Legged Frog" and "The Red Ball". In both stories "The Gold Legged Frog" and "The Red Ball", the writers use a range of language and techniques, to emphasize the struggles the families are going through, due to their poverty, which cause the writer to sympathise with what they are going through. In "The Gold Legged Frog" the opening paragraph is carefully crafted to create a general impression of depravation. Around the main character, Nak, is an "expanse" of dry, bleak land in which nothing much grows. The reader gains the impression that surrounding him is a huge area of nothingness. It's probably a really desolate and lonely landscape, with no animals grazing, or vegetation growing there, so we feel that Nak is quite isolated. It also conveys a feeling of entrapment, with no...

