Images Of Imagery In Sacco And Hedges Book Days Of Destruction Days Of Revolt

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. The authors use images to create a vivid picture of the destructive scene. The reader is able to picture how the mining of coal affects the citizens of the community. The image of coal dust over everything it passes is shown by the author. Coal dust blankets, covers, coats, and forms a film over the trees, houses,

“Eighteen-wheeler coal trucks rumble down the back roads. They spew clouds of coal dust into the air” ( Sacco & Hedges, pg 148). The image of a oversized heavy duty vehicle rolling through a back road, suggesting near a town gives the reader an idea of the proximity of the coal to homes, schools, and churches. Spewing clouds of coal suggest there is an enormous amount of coal released into the air. The image the most powerful is about children. “In the elementary schools there are lines of inhalers in the nurse’s office for the boys and girls.” ( Sacco & Hedges, pg 148). The reader is intended to picture an elementary school, full of young, small, vulnerable children. Then the reader must picture all of the children needing an

In the beginning of this paragraph the author shows how coal leaves the mine, through the use of large trucks with loads of coal. The author then goes on to depict dust from that coal settling in all parts of the community, from the yard to the home. In the order of these events the reader is able to understand how this dust reaches a person in the community. Although the reader may not live in a coal mining town, the author has enabled the reader to put themselves in the shoes of someone who may be affected by this destruction. The author states “ You eat it. You drink it. Your breathe it.” (Sacco & Hedges, pg 148). Now how do they affect you? The author then goes on to talk about the many inhalers needed in an elementary school, the reader is able to draw conclusions based upon what inhalers are needed for. Lung problems, the author has shown the reader a story that leads to the destruction of the human body. From the coal truck to the harmed lungs of a human the author structures the paragraph to show the story of how the coal came from the mine to the