Waithea’s Clothing
The narrator describes the clothing of Waithea as, ‘… the little manta dresses and shawls, the moccasins and the yashtoah-they all turned into butterflies- all colors of butterflies. And they say that Acoma has more beautiful butterflies-red ones, white ones, blue ones, yellow ones.’
The narrator has built visual imagery in the description of the clothes and the butterflies. Adjectives such as red, blue and yellow are used to describe the color of the butterflies.
The Sky
The sky and the sun are described as, ‘The color of the sky had not been good lately; it had been pale blue, almost white, even when there were no clouds. She told herself that it wasn’t a good sign for the sky to be indistinguishable from the river ice, frozen solid and white against the earth.’
In the description, visual imagery has been built by the use of adjectives to describe the color of the sky. The adjectives are pale blue and white which describe the color of the sky.
Winter Clothing
The clothing that the young girl was wearing as she went across the ice is described as, ‘She pulled on the sealskin boots, the mukluks with the bright red flannel linings her grandmother had sewn for her, and she tied the braided red yarn tassels around her ankles over the gray wool pants.’
Visual imagery in the description of the winter clothing has been built by the use of adjectives. The adjectives are bright red to describe the flannel and red yarn to describe tassels.
The old man
The old man was a storyteller who passed down stories to the younger generations. He is described as, ‘His thin legs were shaking inside the baggy wool trousers; he stumbled over her boots in his bare feet. His toenails were long and yellow like bird claws…’
The visual imagery in the description of the old man has been built by the use of adjectives and a simile. The adjectives include thin to describe his legs and baggy to describe his trousers.
