Figurative and descriptive language are used in Crow Country to construct the setting revealing Sadie’s personality and emotions. In chapter 2, similes, personification and imagery is used to show how Sadie feels when she moved to her new town named Boort. When Sadie is about to approach the lake, she observed the setting around her and described the pale paddocks as ‘blank as empty pages in the weak winter sunlight’. This simile reveals that Sadie is not recognising the beautiful world around her. This shows that Sadie is feeling very unhappy in her new town as she sees the land as blank. As Sadie wakes up to her new bedroom ‘the loss of home [punches] her in the stomach’. This says that Sadie almost feels pain because she misses her old home.