Examples Of Imagery In Animal Farm

The vibrant imagery used throughout the story helps to change the despondent mood into an exiting and hopeful one. The change is mood can be noticed soon after Farquhar’s noose snaps and he is thrown down into the creek. As he hastily tries to swim away, the Union soldiers fire a cannon near his position. When the cannonball is shot out of the cannon, “…he heard the deflected shot humming through the air ahead, and in an instant it was cracking and smashing the branches in the forest beyond” (Bierce 472). The purpose of the cannon and the cannonball is meant to add onto the urgency of his situation. After a time of struggling to survive multiple volleys of projectiles flung by the rifles and cannons of Union soldiers, Farquhar escapes the soldiers