Each country has different financial classes such as lower class (poor), middle class, and high class (rich). In both stories "Pretty Flowers," and, "Dancing with Beads, "Deborah Ellis did a great fop explaining how both poor families survive under very harsh circumstances. People would do anything either legally or illegally in order for them to survive. That's what Ellis tries to show through both of these stories. Ellis exemplifies this instinct of survival through her description of the setting. The first example is in "Pretty Flowers, "Tahmina and her family lived in a small farm in Pakistan. Ellis explains that when she wrote: "Papa and his family had gone to refugee camp in Pakistan...Plot of land in Helmand Province"(Ellis 13-14). This explains how poor they were, and how hard they were the conditions they lived in. The place they lived in was in a small farm and unhealthy. They had one of the walls collapsed on it and broke apart, which is what they use to stay underneath in winter times. The second example is in "Dancing with Beads, "Ramon and his family struggle a lot in their lives due to their poorness. An example of that is when Ellis talks about their setting "Jitneys didn't travel to where Ramon lived. No vehicles...let a fire truck through'(88). This tells how bad the conditions were living in that neighborhood. It couldn't get any worse than that because Jitneys didn't bother traveling to his place. Above all they were living there illegally. Ellis shows how poor the families were in both stories through their setting. Then, she talks about how determined they are to survive through sacrifice. Deborah Ellis shows the determination of both families for survival through sacrifice. In "Pretty Flowers, "Tahmina's family's farm was very small to grow Plants in, and its conditions were not satisfying to plant any kind of plants. An example of that is when Ellis said:"We'll start a new orchard...for everything t