The fictional book “The Midnighters: The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld” was interesting in its style and storyline. The author describes the setting with vivid details making it feel as if one could feel the same as the protagonists’. For example, the protagonist, Jessica Day, had just entered the secret hour where everything had froze into place, including the raindrops whereas the author described them as “millions of diamonds [filling] the air” (Westerfeld 24). The plot was interesting as strange beings would appear during this secret hour and it was the job of the Midnighters, which were particular people who managed to go into the secret hour, to fight them off. Though, overall, it was too cliched.
Man vs. Society is a type of conflict in the book “Night” written by the late Elie Wiesel. Life was harsh for the Jews in the concentration camps; it was so harsh both Jew and officer lost their humanity. One of the few people who kept their humanity was a Dutch man. He never insulted any of them; he even tried to free the Jews. Sadly he was caught and hung.
“ Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere. ”(Wiesel 119). In the book Night by Ellie Wiesel, he tells his story about living through the Holocaust and the horrible events that took place in Auschwitz. It is important to remember the holocaust not only to make sure it doesn't happen again but to also tell the story of those who lost their lives to ensure no one forgets the horrible acts that occurred. The more we stay silent the more we are accomplices to the hatred of the world we have the power to use our voice for good to stop the bad.
Setting in Night In the story Night the author uses figurative language to help describe and visualize the setting. In the story the Jewish people have to leave their possessions and this quote helps describe and visualize the setting. First the following quote helps describe the setting using a simile. “Our backyard looked like a marketplace. Valuable objects precious rugs, silver candlesticks, Bibles and other ritual objects were strewn over the dusty grounds- pitiful relics that seemed never to have had a home.
Nights Dark,Surprising Setting In “Night”, the setting creates a dark, surprising mood which often helps the reader to predict what is going to happen next and creates a foreshadowing of the rest of the story. Wiesel writes in great detail about the ghetto being their new “normal”, making the mood living in denial and trying to shut the rest of the world out. While living in the ghetto , Wiesel says, “Little by little life remained to “normal”. The barbed wire that encircled us like real fear.
The Holocaust killed over six million Jewish people. The horrors of this mass tragedy are recorded in the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel. It is about a Jewish boy (the author) who suffers through the Holocaust, including the concentration camps, and survives. He later gave a speech at the White House entitled “The Perils of Indifference”. The speech goes into detail about how Wiesel felt during the war and how the American people were indifferent to the suffering until it disturbed the US way of life.
“Night” is a poem by Hilda Doolittle better known as H.D. Born in Pennsylvania on September 10, 1998. The work of H.D was “characterized by the intense strength of her image economy of language and use of classical mythology”. Mythology is the myths of a group of people depending on each culture. While classical is a long established event or idea or also traditional, HD used traditional myths to create each poem. She was also the leader of the imagist movement which was very important at that time.
Above are the first three stanzas of poem “The Waking” by Theodore Roethke. There are six stanzas but I think the first three stanzas basically covers the whole message that this poet is trying to get out according to my point of view , but let’s go deep into this poem and find out more about this!, and yes I do think this poem title is significant because its talking about the routine behavior that basically every human being goes through at some point in their life. This poem is basically taking dead aim on the eternal. This poem is a villanelle, and elaborate fixed form of five tercets and quatrain.
“Our Vanishing Night” Thesis statement First and foremost, I’d like to exacerbate the thesis of the author. Klinkenborg argument is that we use too much light and it is dramatically affecting the sky above us by being less extravagant with its consolations, and various anomalies throughout the universe, and to solve this issue we must eliminate all unwanted light; including features such as, too much glare, or city lights becoming more spread out throughout the area. Furthermore, his full thesis statement is, “This kind of engineering is no different than damming a river. Its benefits come with consequences-called light pollution-whose effects scientist are now beginning to study”( 109 “Models for writers” paragraph 2) It is elaborated further,
Throughout the generation, women have always been trapped in some way or another. In the short story, ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ and the novel ‘The Awakening’ highlights the struggle of women in the late 1800’s and the early 1900s in society. The Yellow wallpaper is a short story about women giving birth and being imprisoned in a room with a weird view of the yellow wall-paper. This resulted in her hallucination lead to the development of mental illness. By the end of the story, she rips off the yellow wallpaper and kills her husband.
In the first chapter the narrator states ‘My spirits have for many years now been excessively affected by the ways of the weather’ (2). The Woman in Black is a 1983 horror novella by Susan Hill, written in the style of a traditional Gothic novel. The plot is about a mysterious spectre that haunts a small English town, Crythin Gifford, heralding the death of children. In The Woman in Black weather is an important aspect which influences the narrator’s actions and the atmosphere of the story. In both negative and positive connotation, Arthur Kipps is mainly affected by the change of weather.
Mick’s connection to music and nighttime becomes a pivotal scene to her development in part two of the novel. Her connection to night is unique because it reveals that Mick can only be herself at night. Throughout the night Mick is able to live the luxuries she isn’t able to live in her own house which is to listen to music on a radio. The most important night comes after her party when she encounters Beethoven’s third symphony after her party. Adolescence brings many struggles for Mick and one of them is the social world of high school, the narrator states, “Here was the thing that soon began to bother her.
In Kate Chopin 's novel The Awakening and the short story “The Story of An Hour” feminist beliefs overshadow the value in moral and societal expectations during the turn of the century. Due to Louise Mallard and Edna Pontellier Victorian life style they both see separating from their husband as the beginning of their freedom. Being free from that culture allows them to invest in their personal interest instead of being limited to what 's expected of them. Chopin 's sacrifices her own dignity for the ideal of society’s expectations. Chopin 's sad, mysterious tone seems to support how in their era, there was a significant lack of women 's rights and freedom of expression.
“Traveling Through the Dark”: Deep Meanings Within Simple Words For everyone with cognitive thought, choices are a part of everyday life, even when they are difficult to make. A choice could be deciding what to order on a menu, or it could be a decision that could be life-changing. The poem “Traveling Through the Dark” by William Stafford catches the reader’s attention with a choice the narrator must make while traveling on the road less traveled. This poem illustrates the internal conflict people face when it comes to choosing between what is right and what is easy, and it brings to life the constant battle between technology and nature. William Stafford was born and raised in Hutchinson, Kansas and he had a burning passion for hunting and fishing.
After viewing Moonlight, which was personally my favorite film of the year, I choose to analyze the scene when Blue takes Chiron to the ocean and teaches him to swim (17:20-19:30). This scene first drew my attention because of Blue’s character. The dynamic of a crack dealer with a heart-of-gold has this duality about it where my heart tells me to love him as a person, but my head tells me that this person is Chiron’s mother’s dealer, and I should despise him for it. Yet, when I watch this scene I can’t help but think of how much I love Blue as a character. He is able to fill in for the role of a father figure, and teach Chiron about life.
