5 senses chart (unfinished)

Hearing

1.        As she listened to the camionettes passing on the road, to the croaking frogs, the rasping crickets, and the hooting birds in the woods, she knew that nothing in the world could compare with the sweet softness of pure brook water. P21

2.        A torrential rain fell. P23

3.        Silence, too. P26

4.        Drumbeats sounded from the hills. P26

5.        They met instead outside of huts to talk, to complain, to drink rum and shout of their grievances to each other. P27

6.        Then came a resounding crash, so shattering that she knew a giant star had fallen to smash their tiny village. P27
7.     She strained, listening to the fading sound of its engine. P14

Smell

1.         Mud huts dissolved and sank beneath the thickening currents. P41
2.     The air was wet---even the air in the cabin. P43
3.     A smell of death invaded the cabin through his festering sores. P44
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5.     Needles of water drilling down into the earth softened it into mud. P42

Touch

1.        They put the young man on the pallet and carried him up the hill, where they placed him on a mat in the sheltered stone house… P41

2.        …she lay on the sandy bottom, letting water rush to thicken her hair and cool her head. The water massaged her neck, her body, her tired feet.  P21

3.        She has the smoothest skin, the peasant girl. Black. Silk at the calves, stain on her thighs, changing to velvet blackness as it spread up her shoulder, her neck, her face. P21

4.        Stomping knee-deep through mud P24

5.        She let the falling water woo her. P25
6.     ...touching the peasant girl gently on her head as he passed. P14

Sight

1.        A man in black who perched inside the window, his clothes as dark as the night behind him… P46

2.        His shirt was torn to shreds. He had lost his old hat, and his hair stood up white and thick on his head. A gray beard had grown on his chin. P52

3.        The hill is covered by the richest land, which run like a river for miles. P53

4.        They looked at the woods, where standing trees supported those that had fallen, and knew that within that tangle of the trees lay their future. They saw the water rushing off, seeking outlets to the sea, and they laughed and shouted their victory. P48

5.        He looked from her to stare around the mud hut. P40

Taste

1.        Others went out to take care of the needs--- some as simple as filling empty bellies with rainwater. P43

2.         But during these hard times when peasants were reduced to eating only millet or cornbread cereal, even vegetables of poor quality were better than none at all. P15
3.     The old woman drank some. The peasant girl drank the rest. 
4.     The seeds the peasants planted become seeds they were forced to eat. P22
5.     In minutes the peasants' possession had disappeared beneath the rising water. P41