Description of the cafeteria’s lights
Aza describes the cafeteria lights as’’...fluorescent cylinders spewing aggressively artificial light.’’ She has used adjectives to describe the lights. The adjectives are ‘artificial’ and ‘aggressive’, and these adjectives build imagery in the statement because the reader can view in his or her mind the aggressive lights.
Description of Harold, Aza’s car
Aza describes her car as,”...sixteen year old Toyota corolla with a paint color called Mystic Teal Mica and an engine that clanked in a steady rhythm like the beating of his immaculate heart…his breaks whined like metal machine music.’’ In this description, Aza has used similes that build imagery because one can almost hear the steady rhythm of the brakes, which are similar to metal machine-like music.
Description of the White River
The White River is described as,’’… lousy with turtles, a shallow island made of millions of white pebbles. A blue heron stood perched on an old bleached tyre.’’ The description contains adjectives that include shallow, bleached and blue. These adjectives create a vivid image in the mind of the reader because one can visualize the blue heron and the shallow island.
Description of the Pickett estate
The Pickett estate has been described in vivid detail such that the reader gets a mental image as he/she continues to read through. It is described as,’’...newly planted maple trees lined the path. The Pickett estate was silent, sterile, and endless, like a newly built housing subdivision before actual people moved into it.’’ The description also contains a simile which enhances the impression left on the reader.
