The imagery of hearing
The author describes the conversation between the narrator and his mother, which depicts the sense of hearing to readers. Readers are engaged in the story's narration when the author writes, "Unfortunately, my mother overheard; and darted, quick as a snakebite: so full you mean, of faeces. Yes, mother, you had the last word on that subject, too: as about everything.”
The imagery of sight
The narrator is painting a picture of his life. The image shows that the narrator's life is not as smooth as one can outwardly see it. According to the narrator, outwardly, his life is colorful because he hails from a dynasty, but the reality is that he faces many challenges, but he is ready for the task. The narrator says, "And yes, ladies, much is being nailed down—colors, for example, to the mast. But after not a so-long (though gaudily colorful) life, I am fresh out of theses. Life itself being crucifixion enough.”
The Imagery of smell
The sense of smell is shown to readers when the author describes Arora's grandparents' scented house. The author writes, “At the age of thirteen, my mother Aurora da Gama took to wandering barefoot around her grandparents' large odorous house on Cabral Island during the bouts of sleeplessness which became, for a time, her nightly affliction…..."
The Imagery of Listening
The author depicts the sense of hearing to the reader when he describes how the young Aurora listens to her grandmother. The author writes, “When young Aurora, listening at the door, judged that the sounds of her hated grandmother’s furry were nearing peak volume, she would put on her sweetest smile and breeze into the matriarch’s presence with a gay morning greeting, knowing that the mother of all the da Gamas of Cochin would be pushed right over the edge of the wild anger by the arrival of this youthful witness to her antique helplessness.
