What Is The Use Of Imagery In Jim Harrison's Legends Of The Fall
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“Late in October in 1914 three brothers rode from Choteau, Montana, to Calgary in Alberta to enlist in the great War (the U.S. did not enter until 1917). When beginning this story, it’s easy to believe it’s about three brothers who go off and fight in war, but it’s much more than that. This book Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison is worth reading because the imagery Harrison portrays is strong and there is dynamic character development.
In the story, three brothers from Montana travel to Calgary, Canada to enlist in the Great War. The youngest brother, Samuel, ends up dying and Alfred, the oldest brother gets sent home due to injuries. Tristan escapes while he’s in Paris and heads back home. When Tristan arrives home, he marries Savannah,…show more content… While you’re reading the novella, you’re able to picture what the narrator is saying. “He looked out the window and saw how his lemon-ticked setters sleeping on the lawn gave the effect of sunlight coming down through the leaves of birch trees.” In this sentence, it’s easy to visualize the sunlight shining through leaves of birch trees. “She sat there as if built of stone with a ricocheted bullet from the canyon wall neatly piercing her forehead like a red dime.” There’s a lot of imagery in this sentence, first you can picture a woman sitting as a statue. Also you can picture a bullet hole in her forehead about the size of a dime. One last example of strong imagery in this novella is, “Now when he rode out to the grave with One Stab in the flivver he felt far more than his seventy-five years thinking of another October when he sent the boys off to war, and then the beautiful October afternoon seven years before when Tristan and Two had been married in a grove of cottonwoods, the sun glistening off the white gown against the sere colors of autumn, faded grass and yellow aspens.” Focusing mainly on the last part of the sentence, it talks about Tristan and Isabel being married in an area with cottonwoods, on a sunny day in the midst of autumn when the leaves were