All writers use some form of visual imagery and narration to help get their point across to the reader. In his essay "Where Worlds Collide: In Los Angeles international Airport, the Future Touches Down,"" Pico Iyer uses extensive visual imagery to describe the international terminal at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). His use of visual imagery throughout the essay effectively persuades the reader to believe that LAX is a hectic and inhospitable place. In addition he effectively employs the use of narration with many stories and vignettes that are told to him by immigrants and travelers that he talks to during his stay at LAX.
From the very beginning Pico Iyer uses visual imagery to explain the international travelers coming off the plane. In his opening paragraph Iyer says:.
They come out, blinking, into the bleached, forgetful sunshine, in Dodger caps and Rodeo Drive T-shirts, with the maps their cousins have drawn them and the images they've brought over from Cops and Terminator 2; they come out, dazed, disoriented, heads still partly in the clouds, bodies still several time zones "or centuries "away, and they step into the promise land (270),.
This paragraph has a couple effects on the readers. First, it successfully helps the reader imagine what exactly the passengers coming off the plane are most likely expecting now that they have arrived in Los Angeles. Secondly, he is letting the reader know where the passengers coming off the planes are traveling from. All are traveling from Asian, European and other over seas destinations. In addition, some are traveling from third world countries where dirt roads are still the norm and ancient buildings made of stone still stand and are occupied. Iyer says, "We fly not only into yesterday or this morning when we go across the world but into the twelfth century or into worlds we haven't seen since childhood. And in the process we are subject to transitions more jolting than any imagined by Oscar Wilde or Sigmund Freud- (274).
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