![]() "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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