Part II: Chapter 1 The author uses a lot of imagery in his remembrance of the first decade of his life. If divided by the content for which each imagery is intended to portrait, there are two most obvious groups that most of the imagery used can be grouped into. These contents are the author’s early implicit explores and imaginations, and the “ink-mark” influence of his father with his close relation with the “background” of the war and the complicated circumstances of the country. Imagery about the author’s early conceptualization and imaginations appeared the most in the first two parts of the chapter. It is used to portrait the formation of the mind of a young individual - the grasp of time and the start of creativity - in a way that the concrete scenery that relates the author with significant importance can be put forward to the readers. For example, “the strong sunlight...immediately invades my memory with lobed sun flecks through overlapping patterns of greenery” when the author first realizes his parent’s age in relation to his depicts a scenery in his memory that connects to the understanding of time. This visualizes the moment of epiphany of the author to the audience. Other examples of this lies in the next …show more content…
When the author is taking about his uncle’s use of language or proverb, there are times that uncle Ruka “invariably take me upon his knee after lunch and [...] fondle me,” and “solemnly bring me from America the Foxy Grandpa series, and Buster Brown (Nabokov).” All of them are examples that shows how uncle Ruka loves Vladimir. Therefore there is no doubt for the reason why uncle Ruka “took me aside and in his brusque, precise and somewhat old-fashined French informed me that he was making me his heir (Nabokov).” Who will give his heritage to a person that he does not