Hearing Imagery
Hearing imagery is depicted when the narrator hears rumors that the queen does not tolerate bad news. The narrator says, "I hear there is a queen in the south that kills the man who brings her the bad news. So when I give a word of the boy's death, do I write my death?" The narrator tells readers that if one takes bad news to the king, he is killed instantly.
Smell Imagery
The narrator's description of the cell not only depicts sight and hearing imageries but also shows smell imagery. For instance, the author writes, "I smell the dried blood of the executed men; I hear their ghosts steal screaming. Your bread carries weevils, and your water carries the piss of ten and two guards.”
The imagery of the fisherwoman
The odor coming from the narrator’s father is nothing but smell imagery that engages readers to keep pace with what is taking place. The narrator says, “My father came home one night smelling of a fisherwoman. She was on him, and so was the wood of a Bawo board. And the blood of a man, not my father. He played a game against a binga, a Bawo master, and lost."
