Imagery of sight
Zede's description of the woman owning the peacocks depicts the sense of sight to readers. At the begging of the text, the author writes, “Little Zede had stood waiting as the fat, perspiring woman who owned the peacocks held them in ashen, scratched hands and tore out the beautiful feathers one by one.” The reader can vividly visualize what is happening in the text.
The imagery of Zede’s hair
The author creates a visual impression of the appearance of little Zede to engage readers. The author writes, “Little Zede went to school wearing a neat blue-and-white uniform, her two long braids warm against the small of her back. By high school, her hair was cut short, just below her ears, and she tossed it impatiently as her mother complained of the poor quality of the modern feather.”
The imagery of touch
The death of Zede's father while she is away, is a touching narration. The reader feels sad that Zede is not around to spend with her father during the last days. The author writes, "Her father, a small, tired, brown skin mam with graying black hair died while she was an earnest scholarship student at the university, far away in the noisy capital."
Imagery of smell
The sense of smell is depicted to the reader when the author talks about the tropical atmosphere that is like a scent. The author writes, “Yet she exuded an almost tropical atmosphere that was like a scent.”
