The imagery of hearing
John Marrant has used music to appeal to the reader the sense of hearing. As he walks home, he passes by a school and hears music and dancing, which takes his fancy very much. Music and dancing produce sound which appeals to the sense of hearing to the reader. For instance, he writes:
“Sometimes after I had been in Charles-Town, as I was walking one day, I passed by a school, and heard music and dancing, which took my fancy very much, and I felt a strong inclination to learn the music.”
The Imagery of Sight
The author uses the lights to appeal the sense of sight to the reader. This imagery is essential in his work because it plays a critical role in helping the reader to conceptualize what is happening. This attracts the attention of the reader to continue reading to uncover what happens next. The author says:
“One evening I was sent for in a very particular manner to go and play for some gentlemen, which I agreed to do, and was on my way to fulfill my promise; and passing by a large meeting house I saw many lights in it, and crowds of people going in.”
The imagery of hallooing by the crazy man
John Marrant is using the hallooing by the crazy man to appeal the sense of hearing to the reader. The crazy man inside the house is hallowing making sounds that scare the author not to go inside despite the persuasion from his companions. He only accepts to enter under one condition, blowing his French horn. He writes:
"I inquired what it meant, and was answered by my companion, that a crazy man was hallooing there; this raised my curiosity to go in, that I might hear what he was hallooing about."
The imagery of smell
The author has used the smelling-bottle in his work to appeal the sense of smell to the reader. The imagery is significant in this context because it aids the reader to get the exact feeling of how the room felt. When enters the house, the word of the Lord struck him and he fell. The author says:
"When I came a little too, I found two men attending me, and a woman throwing water in my face and holding a smelling-bottle to my nose; and when something more recovered, every word I heard from the minister was like a parcel of swords thrust into me, and what added to my distress, I thought I saw the devil on every side of me."
