Next Section Related Links Previous Section The Real Katrina Buy Study Guide How To Cite in MLA Format Hackett, Gina. Esch continually personifies the coming hurricane this is particularly embodied in a passage at the close of the novel, where she calls Katrina "the mother that swept into the Gulf and slaughtered" (256). Esch calls Mama Lizbeth and Papa Joseph's house a "blind house with closed eyes," personifying the property by imbuing it with the ability to see (71). While running through the woods to steal from the white people's house, Esch sees a rabbit whose eye is "wide and glazed as if it is seeing something supernatural," personifying it as a clairvoyant (70). Esch continually treats the decaying elements of the Pit as if they were decaying bodies. Throughout the novel, Esch continually personifies China as if she were a woman, mother, and lover, particularly in relation to Skeetah, with whom Esch often envisions China having a romantic, even sexual, relationship. Junior's fear of baths foreshadow the destructive power of water that will be embodied by Hurricane Katrina Understatement The motifs of clairvoyance and impaired vision, which take shape in personifications of rabbits and Mama Lizbeth and Papa Joseph's "blind" house, foreshadow an imminent apocalypse by implying that both people and things in Bois Sauvage should be alert Esch aligns the flush of the toilet after she and Manny have sex in the elementary school bathroom with the coming hurricane, creating a sense of foreboding Fleas coat Esch's legs at the start of Chapter 4, evoking the dark imagery of the Biblical plagues of Egypt
Esch compares her love for Manny to visceral, grotesque imagery such as a dying squirrel's beating heart, foreshadowing the decline of her tryst with Manny Esch's continual comparison of herself to Medea and of Manny to Jason naturally foreshadows her real-life relationship's downfall Esch continually compares various aspects of the Pit property (the broken cars, Mama Lizbeth and Papa Joseph's house, her father's neck, etc.) to rotting carcasses and food
Skeetah's foreboding comment that the water moccasins in the Pit lake will not bite him because he smells like death
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