The Description of the narrator’s assailant
Agu describes his assailant as, ‘Then I am seeing yellow eye belonging to one short dark body with one big belly and leg thin like spider’s own. This body is so thin that his short is just blowing around his leg like woman’s skirt and his shirt is looking like dress the way it is hanging from his shoulder. His neck is just struggling too much to hold up his big head that is always moving one way or the other.’
In the description, Agu has used adjectives such as ‘big’ to describe the head of the man and a simile,’ is shirt is looking like dress’ which build on the imagery of the description.
Description of the surrounding by Agu
Agu describes the surrounding as, ‘The whole world is spreading before me and I am looking up to the gray sky moving slowly slowly against the top leaf of all the tall tall Iroko tree. And under this, many smaller tree is fighting each other to climb up to the sunlight. All the leaf is dripping with rainwater and shining like jewel or glass. The grasses by the road is so tall and green past any color I am seeing before.’
In the description, Agu has used adjectives and similes to show how the surrounding looked. The adjectives include,’ tall’ and ‘small’ to describe the height of the trees.
Description of the commander
Agu describes the commander as, ‘Commandant is kneeling next to me and smiling so I am seeing how his teeth is in his mouth anyhow, just yellow with gap here and there. His gum is black and his eye is so red. His nose is coming out into a very round bulb at the tip which is sticking over his fat brown lip. He is stretching his glove to my face’.
He has built the imagery in the description by using adjectives to describe the commander’s features such as,’ his gum is black’.
Description of the traditional dancing ceremony
Agu gives a detailed description of the traditional ceremony in his community as he recalls the happy life before the war. He narrates as follows, ‘The first drum is beating and AYIIIEEE! then first dancer is shouting out to be telling everyone to shut up and just be watching. All the dancer is dancing the Dance of the Warrior and they are coming out wearing bell on their ankle and carrying machete that they are making from wood. All of the mask on the face is painting with color bright like sunrise, color that is dancing almost as much as they are dancing when the drum is beating and the bell is ringing. They are wearing grass hat that is just talking like the wind in the grasses when they are jumping this way and that way pretending to be fighting until dust is flying everywhere and making people to have catarrh too much.'
In this description, imagery is built using the simile, ‘painting with color bright like sunrise.’ The simile describes the painting of the people’s faces such that the reader can visualize the faces of the dancers.
