The Library
As usual, when Nita ran away from students who wanted to beat her up, she ran into the library. The author describes the library using sight imagery. The author writes, "The library had been a private home once, and it had not lost the look of one despite the crowding of all its rooms with bookshelves. The walls were paneled in mahogany and oak, and the place smelled warm, brown, and booky." The reader gets an image of the library and its scent. The imagery is important because it represents safety for Nita. No one will follow her into the library to assault her. While in the library, Nita comes across a book that explains how one can become a wizard, and she develops an interest. She borrows the book and goes home with it. The imagery of the library also shows readers how Nita transformed into a wizard that helped her to deal with the bullies and whoever tried to intimidate her in later days.
Hearing voices
Nita's fear and oppression are highlighted using hearing imagery. The author writes, "Nita paused to try to hear voices and found she couldn't. Doubting that her pursuers could hear her, she walked into the children's library, smiling slightly at the books and the bright posters." The imagery signifies Nita's loneliness and fear. The reader realizes Nita does not have friends because every student wants to bully her. Therefore, her best friends are books because she learns something new every day. While in the library, she still fears that bullies are after her and listening to whatever she does.
So You Want to Be a Wizard book
Anita’s first interaction with the book So You Want to Be a Wizard in the library is interestingly described using imagery. The author writes, "Nita pulled the book off the shelf, surprised not so much by the title as by the fact that she had never seen it before. She thought she knew the whole stock of the children's library. Yet this was not a new book. It had been there for some time – the pages had that yellow look about their edges, the color of aging, and the top of the book was dusty." The imagery represents Nita's bookworm habit because the reader realizes that she has read almost every book on the shelves. Perhaps, loneliness is one reason to push Nita to read every book she comes across.
