The narrator's real world versus his dream world is dramatically different between light (dream world) and dark (real world). Dark represents the side of his real world and how he is desperate for a life other than his own, one that is very happy and uplifting , a world that will make him feel like an actual human being. Light represents the side of the dream world and how at first seems so magical to him. One day when he leaves the world and ventures off in the dreamworld, he realizes that the light is not for him. The light made him see his true colors compared to normal human beings daily lives, he realized he likes to be alone and unbothered. But the dream provides a sense of true reality and what human interaction is like and what's out
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It shows how books inspired him to go and venture off to the dream world and the first time he experiences happiness and things he has never seen before happen right in front of his eyes. The text states, “I fantastically associated these things with every-day events, and thought them more natural than the colored pictures of living beings which I found in many of the mouldy books. From such books I learned all that I know… As I did so there came to me the purest ecstasy I have ever known; for shining tranquilly through an ornate grating of iron, and down a short stone passageway of steps that ascended from the newly found doorway, was the radiant full moon, which I had never before seen save in dreams and in vague visions I dared not to call memories.” This clearly shows his inspiration to go to the dream world and experience it for his own, it shows how he taught himself everything he's ever known. This also shows what the real world is lacking because the the dream world gives him a glimpse of happiness and demonstrates different opportunities/ experiences that the dream world has. Through books, it provided him a window to reality and it gave him the ability to overcome his fear of the unknown and by his desire to see things he had never witnessed before gave him the courage to climb that tower to get to the dream
It shows how books inspired him to go and venture off to the dream world and the first time he experiences happiness and things he has never seen before happen right in front of his eyes. The text states, “I fantastically associated these things with every-day events, and thought them more natural than the colored pictures of living beings which I found in many of the mouldy books. From such books I learned all that I know… As I did so there came to me the purest ecstasy I have ever known; for shining tranquilly through an ornate grating of iron, and down a short stone passageway of steps that ascended from the newly found doorway, was the radiant full moon, which I had never before seen save in dreams and in vague visions I dared not to call memories.” This clearly shows his inspiration to go to the dream world and experience it for his own, it shows how he taught himself everything he's ever known. This also shows what the real world is lacking because the the dream world gives him a glimpse of happiness and demonstrates different opportunities/ experiences that the dream world has. Through books, it provided him a window to reality and it gave him the ability to overcome his fear of the unknown and by his desire to see things he had never witnessed before gave him the courage to climb that tower to get to the dream