Imagery of sight
The description of the man interviewing Bella depicts the sense of sight to readers. The author writes, "He talked broken Hebrew like that even though he didn't look so much like a newcomer, and Bella said to him, sure, what did you expect, nobody's is home, because these people are not parasites, these people work plenty hard for their bread, morning to night they're working in the lottery booth to stream down, and this little boy here, he's their…."
The imagery of the street
Bella is scared and excited at the same time when she first sees an ambulance in the quiet street. The quietness of the street depicts the sense of hearing to readers. The author writes, "And the man said, don't get excited lady, nothing happened, what can happen. No, I bring a relative, see, and he thumbed backward over his shoulder at the ambulance in the street, which seemed empty and quiet…."
The imagery of news
Momik listens to the news daily, and this depicts the sense of sight to readers. The author writes, "This grandfather arrived in the Hebrew month of Shebat in the year 5317 of the creation, which is 1959 by the other calendar, not through the special radio program 'Greetings from New Immigrant' which Momik had to listen to every day at lunch between1:20 and 1:30, keeping his ears open in case they called out one of the names on the list Papa wrote down for him on a piece of paper…."
