By using the five senses Saira Shah creates an unforgettable story, capturing the attending of the readers from the very first paragraph. Giving the test of the oriental table the author immediately drove the audience into the taste of the Eastern culture “He would often generously withdraw a half-chewed delicacy from his mouth and lovingly cram it into mine” (1). The sense of feel is almost everywhere in the narrative “like a princess in a fairy tale” (2), the smell of “tidbits from his own plate” (1), to hear the “inhuman sound that sounded almost like a bark” and to look at the “lavish gifts” (6) gives us the impression that we are invisible guess at the house.
