How does the author use juxtaposition in the novel, What Comes After?

Tompkins also juxtaposes her diction to emphasize the duality of all life forces and highlight the paradoxical nature of life. For example, Jonah finds Evangeline to be a girl that “filled him with miraculous pain” (36). She makes him feel alive yet terrifies him with the possibility of love. Additionally Tompkins characterizes nature and wild animals in much the same manner, as Jonah listens to “frogs bellow songs of love and battle” (376). As the work comes to a close, Tompkins uses the house as a metaphor for the human body and describes it as “alive with the terrors and the joys” (411).These descriptions further underscore the work’s emphasis on the ebb and flow of life.