How does Edwidge Danticat use imagery in Krik? Krak!?

Imagery:

"When you write, it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity."

Love is one of those lessons that you grow to learn, the way one learns that one shoe is made to fit a certain foot, lest it cause discomfort."

Rocks "shimmer like chunks of gold".