The imagery of the new house
In the opening paragraphs, the narrator dedicates his time to help readers have an imaginary view of his new home and how it is affected by the floods. The narrator says, “In the weeks following our move from Clunes back to Fitzroy, our new house was almost submerged by a rising flood. Although there must have been days when it was not wet, my memory of that winter is of looking out into the backyard from the kitchen window at an unrelenting curtain of rain.”
The Hotel
The description of the hotel rooms where the narrator slept with his mother paints a clear picture of the condition of the cheapest rooms available. The narrator recalls, “The cheapest rooms at the hotel were about the size of a wardrobe and had only a narrow single bed in them, so my mother and I slept head to toe, ‘sardine style’ as my grandmother used to call it.”
The imagery of color
The narrator's house is unique berceuse it is the only house painted with red color in the entire neighborhood. Therefore, the narrator did not have difficulty directing his new friends into their home. The narrator says, “I soon got used to the house's color. After I began to make friends at my new school, I found that it was easy to direct them to our house.”
