Description of Lyra
Will on his first meeting with Lyra described her as, 'And all the time he was intensely aware of the girl. She was small and slight, but wiry, and she’d fought like a tiger; his fist had raised a bruise on her cheek, and she was ignoring it. Her expression was a mixture of the very youngwhen she first tasted the colaand a kind of deep, sad wariness. Her eyes were pale blue, and her hair would be a darkish blond once it was washed; because she was filthy, and she smelled as if she hadn’t bathed for days. '
The description contains imagery because Will has used adjectives like small and pale blue to describe Lyra. The adjectives help in forming a mental image in the minds of the readers of Lyra's appearance.
Will's description of the world of the specters
When Will crossed over to the world of the specters, he described it as, 'She was nowhere in sight. No doubt she was already exploring those narrow streets and gardens beyond the cafes whose lights were so inviting. Will lifted up his tattered tote bag and walked slowly across the road toward them, moving very carefully in case it all disappeared. The air of the place had something Mediterranean or maybe Caribbean about it. Will had never been out of England, so he couldn’t compare it with anywhere he knew, but it was the kind of place where people came out late at night to eat and drink, to dance and enjoy music. Except that there was no one here, and the silence was immense.'
The description contains imagery because the city can be formed it the minds of the readers since Will's description is very vivid and detailed.
Will's house
The narrator's description of Will's house is as follows, 'He was looking for a battered green leather writing case. There are a surprising number of places to hide something that size even in any ordinary modern house; you don’t need secret panels and extensive cellars in order to make something hard to find. Will searched his mother’s bedroom first, ashamed to be looking through the drawers where she kept her underclothes, and then he worked systematically through the rest of the rooms upstairs, even his own. Moxie came to see what he was doing and sat and cleaned herself nearby,... '
The description contains imagery because the narrator has detailed the architecture of the house for it had panels and extensive cellars.
Mrs. Cooper's description of Will and his mother
Mrs. Cooper observed them as follows, 'The untidy hair and the distracted halfsmile, and at the boy with the fierce, unhappy glare in his eyes, the tightset lips, the jutting jaw. And then she saw that Mrs. Parry, Will’s mother, had put makeup on one eye but not on the other. And she hadn’t noticed. And neither had Will. Something was wrong.'
The narration contains imagery because Mrs. Cooper used descriptive words such as unhappy, juuting, set and untidy hair. These words help achieve imagery for a reader is able to image them based on the qualities.
