Once the sun was covered, “it was dark night.” The only light showing in the sky was the thin ring of light from the corona peering from behind the black circle that was the moon. Everything was dark and black and in what was supposed to be broad daylight, Dillard could see cars below her turning on their headlights. She later described the shadow that overcame them during the eclipse. She said that screams were heard from the hilltop, because of the unsettling speed and abruptness at which the shadow came over them.
Throughout the book Beams of Light Piercing the Storm, Kimberley Williams helps readers
The excerpt begins with Petry introducing the wind as a main antagonist through the careful use of personification. The cold wind “[drives] most of the people off the street”, “set[s] a barrage of paper swirl[ing] into the faces of people”, and even “make[s] it difficult to breathe.” These unpleasant and abrasive acts of the wind succeed in their goal of discouraging the residents of the city. They respond with frustration
The first example within the passage that lends a significant amount of evidence to the assertion that occurs in line 9, when the wind’s relentless assault is portrayed by the narrator as a ‘violent assault’. Petry takes her exaggerated description of the wind a step further in lines 31-34. The wind is portrayed as thoughtless, selfless, as it “grabbed their hats, pried their scarves from around their neck, stuck its fingers inside their coat collars, blew their coats away from their bodies”. The wind violates Lutie Johnson without even a modicum of respect; as its icy, death-like fingers “touched the back of her neck, explored…” (Lines 39-41).
This quote from the passage shows that Lutie feels that the elements of her surroundings have a negative effect on the population. Instead of contributing to society, the elements metaphorically, "take" from society in the form of harsh, irritant weather. The author is giving the wind human like qualities by saying it snatched the hats and other things off of the people that were in the streets. Imagery also plays a part within the novel. The passage says, "Fingering its way along the curb the wind set the bits of paper to dancing high in the air, so that a barrage of paper swirled into the faces of the people on the street"(Paragraph 2).
Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains,” tells the story of a self-regulating house that is all that is left of the world. Through the use of diction, the reader is able to understand the shifts in tone throughout the story. In the beginning of the story, we are introduced to the house. Bradbury uses terms such as “ruined city,” “radioactive glow,” and “rubble and ashes,” (Bradbury 1) effectively creating a dark and forlorn atmosphere. The author’s word choice creates an image in the reader’s mind of how desolate the house’s surroundings are, ultimately contributing to the somber tone.
In the passage, Josan is worried the “stone tower [will] crumble beneath the fury of the storm” (31-33). The reader experiences the violence portrayed by Bray through her dramatic literary illustrations. She personifies the monstrous storm to increase the tension between Jason and the storm. Bray symbolizes “the lighthouse [as] being swallowed by the ocean” to gradually develop suspense in the story (48-49). The author keeps using personification throughout the story to create imagery.
In the first paragraph of the text Joan Didion uses words such as “uneasy” , “unnatural stillness” , and “tension” to introduce the reader to the feelings of those who live in the vicinity where this disaster hits. These words suggest an abnormal feeling that occurs when the wind comes about. After the introduction of the anxious feeling she uses imagery in the following paragraph to allow us to further understand her emotions. When she states, “... and one woke in the night troubled not only by the peacocks
All the Light We Cannot See is full of empirical science and new technology, and nothing shows this frontier more than the radio. Radios are omnipresent in this new age, and Anthony Doerr uses them as a symbol of hope and faith, but also the Christian God himself. In the beginning of the novel, Werner discovers a little beat up radio in an alley, and, after days of tinkering and hoping, he hears beautiful music. He “blinks; he has to swallow back tears….
In “The Most Dangerous Game,” the setting creates a suspenseful mood which often helps the reader to predict what is going to happen next or to better understand a character. Connell writes great details in the exposition of the novel that create a foreboding mood for the upcoming storm. Before Rainsford finds himself stranded on Ship Trap Island, Connell writes, “There was no sound in the night as Rainsford sat there but the muffled throb of the engine that drove the yacht swiftly through the darkness, and the swish and ripple of the wash of the propeller” (20). The lack of sound in the night, the muffled throb of the engine and the ripple and swish of the propeller all work together to create a sense of anticipation or a foreboding mood for
All The Light We Cannot See Analysis All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr gave a glimpse of World War II from the perspective of two unlikely acquaintances. These two characters were exceptionally dissimilar, but they both experienced multiple difficulties and downfalls in their constantly changing lives. Even through each character’s never-ending nightmare, their true personalities were revealed, which both happened to be rather innocent and honest. Each main character had a sense of hope and adventure in the beginning of the book, but that slowly decreased due to the war.
Changes occur throughout the book, the quote chosen tends to show that the wind has started to pick up and it begins to blow very strongly which causes the leaves in the following quote to rumble. “ ‘Ralph, wake up!’ The leaves were roaring like the sed. ‘Ralph wake up.’ ‘What’s the matter?’
Many more books show a usage of weather in their story, this combined to give an audience a profound piece of literature. The weather development predicted many conflicts of the
The use of imagery in "Storm Warnings" conveys the literal and metaphorical meanings of the oncoming physical and emotional storms. Rich uses to imagery show the anxiety she is feeling about the storm in the beginning. For example, "The glass has been falling all the afternoon," and, "gray unrest moving across the land. " Both of these images have negative connotations, which show what she is feeling and what she sees.
Zoe Wicomb’s novel, Playing in the Light (2006), is set in the 1990s in Cape Town, South Africa, post apartheid. The novel revolves around Marion, the protagonist, and her intricate relationship with Brenda, the first person of color she has ever employed at her travel agency business. This post apartheid novel offers interesting and an insightful viewpoint of South Africa following the fall of apartheid. By analyzing the passages in this novel, one will be able to better understand race in the context of South Africa.
