Barbara Kingsolver in “The Bean Trees” uses imagery, and syntax to show how she is comparing the railroad track near The Republic Hotel to a body. She states, “in the old days I suppose it would have been bringing the city a fresh load of life, like a blood vessel carrying platelets to circulate through the lungs” which uses imagery show the reader can picture how the railroad would have worked, and does this by comparing it to the lungs in a body. Kingsolver uses syntax by the flow of sentences. She balances it out by using pauses in between sentences to make you see the details that she involved in the paragraph. By comparing the railroad to the body it structured the paragraph. The segments of the body she used flowed really well with describing
