This passage is dark as it attempts to blind you into thinking something good is about to happen but, that’s just and illusion the author creates to ease you into the horror of what man can do and what is about to unfold. The detail of the torture is described with realistic visual detail which embodies and immerses the reader with the victim/torturer. With realistic detail the reader can sense the darkness, the wrongness of man and the cruelty that man can inflict on others. We may not have been a victim ourselves thus never truly feeling what the “victim” felt psychologically or physically. If after reading this passage you don’t feel an ache in your stomach, the sense that that’s just wrong, then you have bigger issues than diagnosing this book selection. Using darkness and through the light of cruelty the author guides us to conformity, a group mentality feeling where is it ok to fly by the seat of your pants …show more content…
Sometimes it’s better to stay in the dark rather than to face the light or not wanting to see what is in front of you. However, the author keeps the allusion alive and makes me feel like a bird soaring in the air transforming into an acrobat and performing great feats of strength. The carnival ride sensation then takes a left turn into a house of horrors. The ride turns into your worst nightmare instantly striping the light into a dark tunnel of despair, agony asking for death but that would be to easy. A tortured old butterfly with its wings ripped off as a child runs happily to show mommy. (He runs to his mother smiling, yelling, “Look Mommy! I took its wings off mommy, it can’t fly anymore.” He looks up at her proudly, squinting with an evil smile.) Truly not a fun-house ride I want to go on. The end of the ride is an attempt at conformity again although goofiness is allowed because at least it’s over now,