Imagery is a literary device to help enhance the quality, relatability, and detail in a story. An ample example of rich sensory language can be found in Farah Ahmedi’s book, “The other side of the sky”. In her book, Ahmadi uses bountiful sensory language to create an atmosphere of the emotions she felt when this situation was taking place, but also utilizes imagery to truly bring the characters to life and makes it abundantly clear that these were real people Ahmedi interacted with. Just in the limited excerpt we read, it’s extremely apparent how Ahmedi was feeling throughout her and her mother’s attempt at crossing the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. This can best be seen through looking at a snippet of the excerpt: “It was hard for me to keep my footing, and my mother was clutching my arm now, just hanging on, just trying to stay close to me, because the worst thing would have been if we had gotten separated. Finally, I saw that it was no use.” just by reading those sentences, we can tell exactly how Ahmedi is feeling based …show more content…
Here’s an interaction from the excerpt to illustrate this: “That Ghulam Ali was certainly a good man, so patient with us and so compassionate. He had never seen us before, and yet when he met us, he said, “I will help you.”” In this quote the humanity of Ghulam Ali is emphasized because of the language Ahmedi chooses to portray him, and he feels like a genuine person you could meet. She does this with the rest of the characters in the story which makes the excerpt feel like a story you could hear from a friend about something that actually happened; ultimately all the characters are very