The imagery of sight
The author's description of how the tragic shooting happened depicts the sense of sight to the reader. The author writes, “Aiming above the trespassers’ heads in the darkness, he fired the single shot from an upstairs window and then watched the three figures scuttling off, the wounded one assisted by his companions.”
The Sheepdogs
The sheepdogs in charge of the compound's security saw the intruders, and they walked away. However, the intruders went to plan how to kill the dogs to gain easy access. The sense of sight is depicted to readers when the author writes, "The sheepdogs had seen them off, but within a week the dogs lay poisoned in the yard, and Captain Gault knew that the intruders would be back."
Imagery of blood
After the shooting incident, the author says that there is a pool of blood, which aids the reader create visual imagery to see what is happening on the ground. The author writes, “When daylight came on the morning after the shooting, blood could be seen on the sea pebbles on the turn-around in front of the house…The pebbles were found raked, a couple of bucketfuls that had been discolored in the accident taken away.”
Upstairs Rooms
The author's description of the author's upstairs rooms by the author aids readers visualize the house's physical appearance and the surrounding environs. The author writes, "One half on the circle on to which the front rooms looked out was the gravel sweep; the other was a raised lawn that was separated from steeply rising woods by a curve of blue hydrangeas. The upstairs rooms at the back had a view of the sea as far as the sea’s horizon.”
