... imagery in Hugo Martinez-Serros's short story "Distillation- creates a vivid description of the difficult obstacles this family overcomes in order to survive. For example, the visual images of, "Far beyond the fence, their ... of fear and pain. The steel mills, being tall and black, would scare a small child and having so many bruises would cause a lot of pain. Other imagery in this story like auditory images of "A bolt of lightning ripped the sky and a horrendous explosion followed- (139), and " we screeched and I could feel my body pucker- (137), create ... and tension. Lightning and ...

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