Hearing Imagery
The hearing imagery is depicted when the narrator describes the whipping of wind and the odd sounds from the roof. The author writes, “The cottage sat at the edge of the lough. She could hear the wind and rain whipping across the expanse of open water: it hit the trees and muscled its way into the grass. She began to wake early in the morning, even before the children. It was a house worth listening to. Odd sounds from the roof. She thought, at first, that it might be rats scuttling across the slate, but she soon discovered that it was the gulls flying overhead, dropping oysters on the roof to break the shells open.”
Sight imagery
The sense of sight is portrayed in the text when author narrates about the position of the meadows. The author writes, “The meadow sat on the outskirts of St John’s, on a half-hill, with a level surface of three hundred yards, a swamp at one end and a pine forest at the other. Days of welding, soldering, sanding, stitching. The bomb bays were replaced by extra petrol tanks. That’s what pleased Brown the most.”
The imagery of the post office
The events taking place at the post office are described using sight imagery. The author writes, “At the post office in St John’s, Lottie Ehrlich skips across a cage of shadow on the floor, steps to the three-barred window where the clerk tips up his black visor to look at her. She slips the sealed envelope across the counter.”
