The author here does use many literary devices, such as imagery, flashbacks, diction. You can also hear her voice in her writing. Eugenia begins her story with her past and she starts talking about her surroundings and what she’s doing and how she feels about it, when she says ‘when I think of the hometown of my youth, all that I seem to remember is dust – the brown crumbly dust of late summer’,(Para 1). You can tell from this text evidence, that all she remembers is the dust from her childhood. The author uses a lot of formal and informal language. The moment she uses more of an words that are being spoken, are words that she said when she was just a little girl, therefore she didn’t have much of a big vocabulary back then. For example when