How does Edmund de Waal use imagery in The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss?

Imagery:

"What was it like to have something so alien in your hands for the first time, to pick up a box or a cup - or a netsuke - in a material that you had never encountered before and shit it around, finding its weight and balance, running a fingertip along the raised decoration?"

"On Monday 14th March Hitler arrives: 'before the shadows of the evening sank over Vienna, when the wind died down and the many flags fell silent in festive rigidity, the great hour became reality and the Fuhrer of the united German people entered the capital."