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How does Anderson use imagery in the novel, The Avatar?

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The Avatar is an exceptional novel because it is beautifully written, with extraordinary imagery that evokes the immensity of the universe. For instance, a galaxy is described as a "wheel" that "burned across a quarter of the sky. From where Chinook was it appeared tilted; vision crossed an arm, then the nucleus from which it curved, then an arm beyond that. It shone, it shone: the heart red-gold, the spirals blue-white, clusters scattered throughout like sparks. Elsewhere gleamed a few cloudy forms, attendants upon its majesty, and remotely the light from its kindred." Such imagery evokes the majesty of the universe; and it succeeds in the narrative because it is unusually inventive as well as being essential to the unraveling of the mystery of The Others.

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