The Plate that Xuela Broke
While Xuela was living with Ma Eunice, she broke a plate that was a prized possession to her(Ma Eunice). The plate is described as follows, 'I would look at it and wonder about the picture painted on its surface. A picture of a wide open field filled with grass and flowers in the most tender shades of yellow, pink, blue and green; the sky had a sun in it that shone but it did not burn bright... '
This description of the plate has imagery because the narrator has described the plate using colors which are adjectives. The adjectives build imagery for the image of the plate can be pictured in a reader's mind.
Ma Eunice
Xuela describes Ma Eunice as follows: 'With her dress of a thin, badly woven cotton, the bodice of a color and pattern contrary to the skirt, her hair, uncombed, unwashed for many months, wrapped in a piece of old cloth that had been unwashed for longer than her hair.' The narration contains imagery which is achieved by the use of adjectives such as old that reveal state of her head wrap.
The Three Turtles
Xuela has kept pet turtles that she described as, ' I thought them beautiful, their shells dark gray with faint yellow circles, their long necks, their unjudging eyes, the slow deliberateness of their crawl...' Xuela achieved imagery in the description of the Turtles by the use of adjectives such as colors to describe their likeness.
Xuela's School Uniform
When Xuela first attended school, she described her new uniform as follows, 'And I can so well remember the feel of the cloth of my skirt and blouse- coarse because it was new- a green skirt and a beige blouse, a uniform... I had on a pair of brown thick cloth shoes and brown cotton socks.' This description has achieved imagery by the use of colors which are adjectives that describe the clothes.
