![]() ![]() ![]() "When the train came, I pushed in, with the others, and I leaned against a pole, while their breath and smell rolled over me. Instead of simply saying that Fonny is in shock, Tish chooses to describe his emotional response to the reader by imagining what his face would look like in a similar context. In this passage, Tish uses evocative language to show the reader what, exactly, Fonny's face looked like when he learns the news that he is going to be a father. "His face looked as though it were plunging into water" (5). Tish uses descriptive words such as "dim," "dark" and "strange" to give the reader a good sense of what it looked like at that moment. This image shows what is left after Tish and Fonny make love for the first time. "On him and on the bed and on me and, in the dim light and against our dark bodies, the effect was as of some strange anointing" (81). ![]()
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