The Imagery of a Heavy Fog
The imagery of sight is depicted to the reader through a heavy fog that hampers visibility. The reader's notion is that the author is traveling in the morning when the visibility is poor. The author says, "And so, on the last morning of January, I arrived in heavy fog at a spot on Masafuera called La Cuchara (The Spoon), three thousand feet above sea level." The imagery paints an imaginary picture to enable the reader to understand the book's setting and the situations and conditions that the author goes through.
The Imagery of Sight
In the story 'Farther Away,' the narrator explains his first experience at the camp. After arriving at the base, each person was separated to stay alone for 24 hours. During that time, the narrator had turned sixteen years old. The next day, the narrator learned that his Friend Weidman could have been lonelier than him that he hiked back within sight of the base camp. The narrator writes, "I learned, the next day, that Weidman, though eight months older than me, had been so lonely that he hiked back to within sight of the base camp. What enabled me to stick it out and to feel, moreover, that I could have stayed alone for longer than a day – was writing”
The Imagery of Hearing
The imagery of hearing is depicted to the reader when the narrator says, “Crusoe’s voice can be heard in the voice of Jane Eyre, the Underground Man, the Invisible Man, and Sartre’s Roquentin. All these stories had once excited me, and there persisted, in the very word novel, with its promise of novelty, a memory of more youthful experiences to engrossing that I could sit quietly for hours and never think of boredom." In this imagery, the reader can listen and hear the conversation taking place in the narration.
