Go back to the Prologue of Alice Pung's Unpolished Gem and write a paragraph that discusses how the author utilises language choices to construct the colourful atmosphere of the market and the interaction between Alice's father, the stall holders and other customers. In your paragraph, you should aim to explore how Pung positions the audience to view the market place and its customers though her use of language.

In the prologue of Alice Pung's Unpolished Gem the author is very descriptive with her words. This helps create a strong image in the reader's mind of what the market place was actually like. The author describes what is seen such as fat pigs hanging from hooks and thin people waiting to buy segments of the pigs. The author also describes what the characters can feel such as the wet blood on his shoes as well as what the characters can hear. The market place is compared to Phnom Penh, and in comparison the market place seems very nice. The author uses lots of adjectives to describe the appearances of people in the market place as well as how the different shops looked and the whole crowded market place in general. The author spells words the way that a person who could not speak english well would pronounce them so the reader gets an idea of how the father, the stall owners and the other customers communicate. The author positions the audience to see the market as busy, loud and hectic and make the audience see that conversations were very difficult.