I think the Count of Monte Cristo is imagery because there is so many describing details in the book that I can't help but think that. But at this point in time I am unsure. I think the author used the imagery the way he had because he sees his stories like a movie you can just see it in his wording that he wants you to see what he sees when he wrote the book. I write exactly like that, only difference is he can describe what he's seeing, my images are too vivid to describe perfectly.
The tone of the novel defiantly shifts from chapter to chapter, hes writing in his characters point of view literally getting into the character like an actor does only hes making the character not portraying it.
My rant for this post is simple. I. AM. SICK. It sucks more than most can imagine unless you have asthma as bad as I do! Plus my head clogged with ridiculous amounts of mucus and I feel like my throat is made of sand paper! Not only that but my breathing has gone to absolute crap. My brain is fuzzy with this cold that I am afraid I wont be able to go to Karate tomorrow and dang it, I need to go practice it's way to close to Kaijukenbo testing for comfort!
Okay then I saw this image a long time ago but it's still one of my favorites; the baby is Naruto (Or Naru-chan as I call him) and of course the nine-tailed se-*ahem* awesome beast fox, Kyuubi ( and since Kyu literally means nine and bi is the japanese suffix for tail his name literally translates to Ninetails his full name Kyuubi no Kitsune is Ninetails Fox)
What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now
-The Buddha