Weetzie Bat
How does the author use imagery in the novel, Weetzie Bat?
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The author uses imagery to evoke feelings of wonder and anticipation, sweetness and surprise. This language also colors the perceptions of places in the story: Dirk's grandmother's home is "a Hollywood cottage with one of those fairytale roofs that look like someone spilled silly sand," while Charlie Bat lives in a "dark apartment" in New York, a city "where the subways made [Weetzie's] nerves feel like a charm bracelet of plastic skeletons jangling on a chain." Both descriptions evoke clear pictures and show Weetzie's feelings about the places at the same time.
Weetzie Bat