How does Jonathan Safran Foer use imagery in Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel?

Imagery:

"In the middle of the string and feathers, surrounded by candles and soaked matches, prawns, pawns, and silk tassels that curtsied like jellyfish, was a baby girl, still mucus-glazed, still pink as the inside of a plum." The Beginning of the World Often Comes, pg. 13

"From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be mistaken for light—a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut's eyes."
A Parade, A Death, A Proposition, 1804-1969, pg. 95