"Five khaki twins, each with the stump of a long eclair in his right hand, and their identical faces variously smeared with liquid chocolate, were standing in a row, puggily goggling at him" (207).
The above quote has detailed imagery to accurately describe the situation. The imagery places five innocent children dumbfounded at the way John is acting in response to his mother's death. This image is very disturbing because it shows that these children really are conditioned to not see death as a sad and tragic end. The imagery helps readers understand how the children are conditioned to see death as something that happens. They are reacting to the death as they would react to someone going to the bathroom. They except that it is something that happens to everyone so it is no big deal. They watch John like they are watching an animal at the zoo, enamored at his wailing and muttering of the word God. I think the imagery is effective because it shows another way in which John is different from everyone else at the Centre. The purpose of the image is to show that John's behavior is unexceptable and odd given the situation that seems totally normal to the children thanks to their training.
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