The simile of the truth
The narrator is passionate when narrating about the boy's death, and he wants his audience to believe him. However, the narrator realizes that some people doubt him. The narrator compares his truth to the crocodile's nature of eating the moon to assure everyone. The narrator says, "Truth eats lies just as the crocodile eats the moon, and yet my witness is the same today as it will be tomorrow.”
Blood
The narrator's memories about people's perception of his involvement in the child's death are baffling. According to the narrator, the child's mother wants people to call him a murderer. However, Tracker argues that he did not kill the child. The child's mother believes that Tracker behaves like a man who has never killed anyone, yet he is a murderer. The woman says, “You look like a man who has never shed blood. And yet, blood sticks between your fingers.”
Sand sea
The description of the town and its walls are compared to the sand sea. According to the narrator, the town looks lifeless. The narrator says, "I walked through open lands that stretched on like the sand sea. That night, I walked past a dead town with walls crumbling.” The reader notes that the narrator slept in a hall that had no doors, and everything else was quiet.
