The Imagery of the Resolution - Chapter one
Cronin concludes, “ Jeanette meant to say something else, but couldn’t find the words. She thought about the note she’d left inside the knapsack, the slip of paper they were sure to find when Jeanette never came back to get her. She hugged her as long as she dared…she let herself hold Amy a moment longer, trying to put this feeling in a place inside her mind, someplace safe where she could keep it." In the resolution, Jeanette resolves to leave her daughter at a convent. Nobody is aware of her plans of never coming back to get her. She literally leave her daughter in God’s hands considering that a covenant has religious affiliations. The hugs are a goodbye which Amy is not aware of. Jeanette intends to store the memories of the hugs in her mind forever.
The Imagery of Bats - “Chapter Two”
Lear writes, “Two nights ago we were attacked- not by drug traffickers, but bats. They came a few hours after sunset while most of us were out of our tents doing the evening chores, scattered around the campsite. It was as if they had been scouting us all along, waiting for the right moment to launch an aerial assault…I heard the shouts and then the gunfire, but by the time I made it back the swarm had moved downstream. Four people died that night, including Claudia. The bats simply engulfed her…she never made it." The bats are cannibals based on how they unexpectedly strike and attack. The imagery of the bats depicts the dangers which are inherent in a jungle. It would be difficult to eliminate a swarm of aggressive and dangerous bats.
