Chapter 4 Saul describes his family. How does he show us their poverty?

After Benjamin’s abduction, Saul’s family left the bush and began doing “Indian work” in camps outside of the small towns. The pay was bad, and most of it went towards drink. The work was brutal and unsafe, and there were few other children because so many had been taken by the Zhaunagush. Eventually, the family settled in a town called Redditt, where things were a little better because the family could make slightly more money. Saul’s father stopped drinking quite so much, and his mother, though still heartbroken, began to spend more time with the family, by the fire.