The Water Cure
What are examples of imagery in the novel, The Water Cure?
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Examples of Imagery:
“I enjoyed the dizziness, the rush of my uncooperative body dissolving into nothing” (19). This description of a relatively innocuous event, sitting in a sauna, is eroticized by the author's use of language (Lia's account of her bodily sensations are meant to be sexually evocative). In a chapter providing background information on the clinic King ran for damaged women, the author's prose is lyrical and plaintive: “Some of the beds in the abandoned rooms are arranged strangely, left by women long gone...Women who were plagued by visions, whose hearts pained them in the night” (21). The words “plague” and “pained” capture the women's distress, while the rhyme of “arranged strangely” is melodious to the ear.
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