The imagery in “A Brutal Murder in a Public Place” written by Joyce Carol Oates argues that non-human living things are not safe to coexist with people in a human-centered environment. Firstly, the description that the narrator recites of the bird gives the readers a sense of the situation in the airport in their perspective. The perspectives are different between the narrator and the other travellers in the Newark International Airport, as the narrator believes the bird does not belong in this environment, while everyone else is either unbothered or grinning at the sight. The narrator says…