How does Gabriel Garcia Marquez use imagery in The Autumn of the Patriarch?

From the text:

"...the body that had been pecked at, the smooth maiden hands with the ring of power on the bone of the third finger, and his whole body was sprouting tiny lichens and parasitic animals from the depths of the sea"

"The second time he was found, chewed away by vultures in the same office, wearing the same clothes and in the same position.."