At the moment I'm reading
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. It's about Charles Monet this frenchmen who lives alone in a bungalow. He runs a sugar factory in Kenya. During the holidays, he decides to go on an adventure through the woods with his prostitute friend. While they are on there adventure he explores the rain forest and caves. When he comes back from his trip, a few days later he has a headache and back pains. Later he acquires aching all throughout his body and starts throwing up. His friends suggest he take a plane to a close city. While on the plane he throws up constantly and his face looks bruised and droopy. He arrives at the hospital and is waiting in the weighting room, when he passes out and throws up. They take him in intensive care and he ends up dying. The doctor helping him ends up acquiring the same symptoms Monet had and this ends up spreading through out the world.
Their flashlights disturbed the bats, and more bats woke up. Hundreds of bat eyes, like red jewels, looked down on them from the ceiling of the cave. Waves of bad sounds rippled across the ceiling and echoed back and forth, a dry, squeaky sound, like many small doors being opened on dry hinges. Then they saw the most beautiful thing about Kitum Cove. (11-12)
This passage uses a lot of imagery to describe the scene in the cave. The simile about the bat eyes helps me to imagine what Monet is seeing while in the cave. I can also hear the screeching of the caves as they fly out of the cave. The words he uses to describe the bats in both similes work very well and help set the scene.
