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Social Climate of this passage,
"Mariam watched them cantering uninhibited down the street, sometimes with a man, sometimes alone, sometimes with rosy-cheeked children who wore shiny shoes and watches with leather bands, who walked bicycles with high rise handle-bars and gold colored spokes-unlike the children in Deh-nazang who bore sand-fly scars on their cheeks are rolled old bicycle tires with sticks."
What is the characters in this passage are living two different lives. The children who don’t live in Deh-nazang live in opulence, indulgence, and opportunity, while those who do are subject to poverty and living in squalor