The narrator's experience exploring England
In "Jack's Garden," the first chapter of the novel, the narrator presents how he felt while walking and exploring England. In particular the narrator always feels nervous and strange. He compares his feelings to the act of tearing at an old scab, a simile that enhances imagery presenting the experience as a painful one: "And every excursion into a new part of the country—what for others might have been an adventure—was for me like a tearing at an old scab."
Thin covering of grass could be seen lines and stripes, like weals
While describing the path to Jack's cottage and its environs, the narrator also uses a simile to present to the reader the way in which the thin covering of grass could visualized as lines and stripes like weals. The use of this simile enhances the readers understanding, particularly enhancing the creation of a mental image of the same in the reader's mind. He provides the description as: "This slope was bare, without trees or scrub; below its smooth, thin covering of grass could be seen lines and stripes, like weals, suggesting many consecutive years of tilling a long time ago; suggesting also fortifications."
Brightly colored trucks and cars like toys.
As the narrator goes on exploring the areas around Jack's garden, he provides vivid descriptions of the same to enhance the reader's interest. He uses a simile to emphasize the colors of the cars and trucks that dotted the roads, directly comparing them to toys: "All around—and not far away—were roads and highways, with brightly colored trucks and cars like toys."
The hanging of the extra cow material in the farm yard
The narrator uses a simile in his description of the way in which the malformed cows stood in the farm yard, and even compares the hanging of the extra cattle material down their middles to a bull's dewlaps, a situation that facilitates imagery: "There, in the ruined, abandoned, dungy, mossy farmyard, fresh now only with their own dung, they had stood, burdened in this puzzling way, with this extra cattle material hanging down their middles like a bull’s dewlaps, like heavy curtains, waiting to be taken off to the slaughterhouse in the town."
The same hanging of this extra material is compared to the hanging of curtains to emphasize the implicit heaviness.
The shape of the decaying rick
Throughout his descriptions of Jack's garden, the narrator uses similes which enhance the story and make it more interesting. He additionally compares the shape of the decaying rick to a hut or cottage: "Not far from the decaying rick shaped like a hut or cottage there were the remains of a true house, a house with walls that might have been of flint and concrete."
