The Night Face Up Analysis

“The Night Face Up” The third-person narrator had just been in a motorcycling accident and was rushed to the hospital thereafter to treat his injuries, but is kept in a ward with the other patients and develops a hospital phobia based on the description and interpretations of the smells and the treatment itself. He eventually dreams himself in a different time period of himself as part of the Motecas fighting against the Aztecs. It is implied where he may have died of a fever while being brutally hunted and running for his life by the Aztecs as a member of the Motecas. The narrator switches between two world: the realistic, modern world, and the cruel, savage past. One of the questions posed for the story is that whether chaos and order; civilization and savagery can coexist with one another since the narrator was taken care of at the hospital but was brutally hunted by the Aztecs in his dreams. Another question is, what is the significance of the dream compared to his real life? The last question is what is the theme concerning human behavior and the physical environment? To answer the first, both could exist as there have been religious topics about how chaos and order like with yin and yang coexist together. The narrator undergoes …show more content…
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