The imagery of the dream jungle
The opening line is imagery that describes the narrator's dream jungle that brings the captivated girl into the readers' sight. The narrator says, "One night I was in the dream jungle. It was not a dream but a memory that jumped up in my sleep to usurp it. And in the dream memory is a girl. See the girl. The girl who lives in the old termite hill."
Touch imagery
The condition in which the girl lives in the hole is clearly described using sight imagery. The author writes, “The girl, she is pressing her lips tight in the hollow hill belly, the walls a red mud and rough to the touch. No window unless you call a hole a window and, if so, then many windows, popping all over and making a light cut across her body up, down, and crossway, making heat sneak in and say, and making wind snake around the hollow."
Smell imagery
The girl held captive can smell cow dung, and this reminds her that one of his brothers is doing farm work. Consequently, this description depicts smell imagery to readers. The author writes, “With the smell of cow shit, she can tell that one brother is tilling the ground to plant new crops, which can only mean that it is either arb or Gidada, the ninth or tenth day of the Camsa moon.”
