And how ardently they grew to love their home under the ground; especially Wendy. It consisted of one large room, as all houses should do, with a floor in which you could dig [for worms] if you wanted to go fishing, and in this floor grew stout mushrooms of a charming colour, which were used as stools. A Never tree tried hard to grow in the centre of the room, but every morning they sawed the trunk through, level with the floor. By tea-time it was always about two feet high, and then they put a door on top of it, the whole thus becoming a table; as soon as they cleared away, they sawed off the trunk again, and thus there was more room to play. There was an enourmous fireplace which was in almost any part of the room where you cared to light it, and across this Wendy stretched strings, made of fibre, from which she suspended her washing. The bed was tilted against the wall by day, and let down at 6:30, when it filled nearly half the room; and all the boys slept in it, except Michael, lying like sardines in a tin.
The passage describes the underground homes of the Lost boys as being spacious and cozy in the perspective on an outsider. This environment can be shown through mentioning the large room being lit up by an enormous fireplace, spreading the warmth across and imagining a scene of children huddling together. The close relationships between the children is also evident through making use of the natural growth that surrounded them as furniture and tools for survival. Stout mushrooms were utilised as stools and tree trunks served as tables. Visual imagery can be evident through this because of the constant sawing off of the rapidly growing trunk that entered their homes being a daily activity, an unusual occurrence as trees generally don't grow two feet high that quick. The children cramming on their beds were described using a simile, "lying like sardines in a tin", envisioning their bodies still like dead fish tightly packed together. Additionally, involving natural elements of fish, mushrooms, trunks and tasks like fishing or sawing develops the impression that these children had somewhat matured and adjusted to a rural lifestyle away from their modern hometowns. Juxtaposing to the child-like imagination that needs to relived by the audience whilst reading the narrative.