Edward P Jones Imagery

In the passage from the novel The Known World, Edward P. Jones immerses the reader in Moses’s life to show how he connects himself to nature to take a break from reality and renew himself. Jones does this by using vivid imagery to evoke the five senses, a great selection of detail to create a story and point of view to give a different perspective. There is a great deal of imagery given by Edward P. Jones in the passage. For example, “When he, Moses, finally freed himself of the ancient and brittle harness that connected him to the oldest mule his master owned, all that was left of the sun was a five inch- long memory of red orange laid out in still waves across the horizon between the two mountains on left and one on the right.” This quote gives us information on what kind of job Moses has. He was to guide the mule to plow the field. It also gives us information about setting in the reader’s mind. So by using imagery Jones has revealed that Moses is a slave and he works in field. …show more content…
“Moses closed his eyes and bent down and took a pinch of the soil and he worked the dirt around in his mouth and swallowed, leaning his head back and opening his eyes in time to see the strip of sun fade to dark blue and then to nothing.” Moses takes the soil into his body as communion. Nature is his religion. This is revealed with the details given by Jones. Another quote that shows this is “and after a bit Moses stopped and held out his hands and collected water that he washed over his face. Then he undressed down to his nakedness and lay down.” These actions can be compared to a baptism. From the selection of detail the reader knows what moses believes