The book The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern began dark and mysterious. The first sentence drags you into read more, describing the dark circus as, “Black-and-white stripes on grey sky; countless tents of varying shapes and sizes, with an elaborate wrought-iron fence encasing them in a colorless world” (3). Morgenstern paints a cold and depressing picture of a foreboding circus. He also makes it clear that the circus is abandoned during the day. However, when the sun goes down lights shine bright to outline a sign saying, “Le Cirque des Reves” translating into “The Circus of Dreams” (6). I was amused by the first chapter because it made me want to figure out what type of a circus is only open at night. When I think of a typical circus I think