How does Mark Medoff use imagery in Children of a Lesser God?

"Deafness isn't the opposite of hearing.....It is a silence full of sounds."

This is the central image of the play. Sarah tries to show James that the relationship between the deaf and hearing worlds is not an "either-or" situation, but rather one with its own distinct and unique possibilities and components.

Much of the imagery of this play is not contained in the words of the characters but rather in the sign language they employ. Sign language in this play provides both visual and verbal imagery. "Join, unjoined" is the principal sign image, used at both the beginning and end of the action (and also graphically represented on the cover of some print editions of the text of the play).