Imagery- On page 51, "..Mistress couldn't keep a smile off her face. Like everyone else, Willard, Scully, hired help, deliverymen, she was happy, cooking as though it were harvest time. Stupid sorrow gaping with pleasure; the smithy laughing; Florens mindless as fern in wind." This quote in the book gives me a sense of contentment. They are all happy with what they have, and are enjoying every minute of it. Mistress was cooking as though everything were "peachy," harvest time is when all the fruits and vegetable are planted and people are happy.
Literary Devices- Good and evil are symbolized in this story in a way never explained before. Jacob now a dead man, was full of conscious. On page 63, "he had appologized for his error in prophecy and admitted that however many collapsed from ignorance or disease more would always come." Jacob Vaark explains the mentality of people, if a person dies from either one of these then only are they visited the most.
Values- On page 63 ""They would forever fence land, ship whole trees to faraway countires, take any woman for quick pleasure, ruin soil, befoul sacred places, and worship a dull unimaginative god." The landowners had no such value, they took everything for granted and thought they could do whatever they pleased.
Characterization- On page 64 "...although legal to do so, they were hesitant to kill foraging swine." Sir D'Ortega and Mistress even though lived off of the slaves hard work, they were mindful enough not to kill every thing seen. They fenced their cattle, and had the right conscious to be hesitant to kill an animal.
Language/ Word choice- On page 63, "Her people had built sheltering cities for a thousand years and, except for the deathfeet of the Europes, might have built them for a thousand more" Jacob's wife was being described and how her ancestry was being emphazised upon. The amount of years was negatory, and was being exagerated in order to catch the readers attention.
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