In McCarthyś novel The Crossing, the narrator describes a dramatic experience. Some techniques that McCarthy used to convey the impact of the experience on the main character would be imagery, diction, and figurative language. There are many other techniques used but these are three that made me really feel the impact of the experience. One technique McCarthy used was imagery. Imagery was used a lot in this piece from his novel. An example of imagery would be ¨coyotes were yapping along the hills to the south and they were calling from the dark shapes of the rimlands above him where their cries seemed to have no origin other that the night itself¨. He used imagery to show the readers what the experience was really like. McCarthy also used