The author uses the Imagery technique to establish disturbing/unsettling effects. For example, the excerpt/ reading says ” Rammed it deep in his crater eye.” In other words, this quote describes the Cyclops as a huge monster because of the way the author described it.
They use the imagery in many different ways to give a deeper understanding of the book. My first example of imagery is about the muck fires. The book says “The muck fire was particularly strong. I could actually see it, and feel it, and smell it swirling over and into our yard.” This gives a lot of detail to the muck fires.
In Sacco and Hedges book Days of Destruction Days of Revolt a paragraph filled with imagery and destruction caught my eye. It caught my eye because of its strong imagery, I was able to vividly picture the scene it was depicting. This paragraph depicts the destruction coal dust leave’s, through exploitation and mining, using imagery, structure, and specific dictation. Images are the strongest literary device used in this passage.
When writers use imagery they help the reader give a visualization on what happens during a war. Wilfred Owens uses a lot of imagery to give the readers a clear thought on what was going on. Owen used “Gas! Gas! ” “yelling out and stumbling”, to show how dangerous the war was. Now Tim O’ Brien used imagery to illustrate what things soldiers had to carry.
Of Mice and Men Literary Analysis Nelson Mandela said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” As a writer, John Steinbeck’s weapon is the written word and in his famous novel Of Mice and Men, he ventures to change the ideas and opinions of his readers. Of Mice and Men is set in 1930’s America during the Great Depression. Even though there are some instances in the novel where Steinbeck seems to mirror the attitudes of the past, there also are several instances where the author he displays the need for societal change. He uses characters in the novel, such as Lennie, to demonstrate the mistreatment of the mentally disabled.
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“A green lovely forest, a lovely river, a purple mountain, high voices singing, and Rima” (Bradbury 5). This quote shows the extreme change between the hot African veldt, and the mysterious imaginary forest of love and paradise. Imagery is used many times in the story for the same purpose. “The lions on three sides of them, in the yellow veldt grass, padding through the dry straw, rumbling and roaring in their throats” (Bradbury 10) captures the suspense the characters feel and giving it to the reader to make the story more exciting. Imagery is used repetitively to keep giving the senses and suspense to make the story feel real.
Another use of imagery was the whip itself. This whip could have represented society and how it reacts to people like Jay and his sister. It stated that “A whip wasn’t something you rode, it was something to hurt you, something that came down hard on prisoner’s backs and left them scarred” (Hemley, Whipped 114). The imagery in this quote is spectacular. It showed how Jay thought, and made me picture a helpless man being beaten.
