City Lights

Darkness. That's all I could feel; all I could see. Then suddenly, it was light. I had always had these random black-outs as a child. The doctors always told me and my mother not to worry about it. When I finally came all the way back into the now, I was at home on my oh-so-familiar street. I looked at my wrist to see what time it was. 9:02 am. I had to be at work in less than an hour. I started to walk down the street, seeing all of my neighbors bustling around. Some were leaving for work,…

Many different novels have objects that represent more than what they normally mean. The novel Dark Places by Gillian Flynn is about a young woman whose family was killed when she was 7 years old. She soon converges with the Kill Club, who says her brother had not killed her family. Libby Day embarks on the adventure of finding the truth of that cold night in January 1986. The three main objects in the novel Dark Places are an axe, a knife and the letter. The first object, an axe was used to…

Everything was silent. The only noise you could hear was the wind whistling and the sound of raindrops crashing down on the window. The night sky was black as ink, there was not a single star to be seen and there he was standing in the dark all alone watching the atmosphere change ferociously. The howling of the wind grew louder every minute. The raindrops grew larger. It was wet, dark, humid and scary. Mo saw the destruction of the Earth occur right beneath his eyes. Then all of a suddenthe…

Spooks Diary Today I had the first battle of my spooks career against Mother Malkin.That’s right one of the strongest witches in the country. It all started when I’d come back from finishing my work.I’d turned the corner and it opened into a frightening scene.There was Snout holding Ellie and Jack’s baby and a brandishing a huge knife in his other hand. I was so nervous and shocked that my ears started burning like red hot coal embers.I had to do something. That was when I made a huge mistake…

Rinka arched her head and looked over to the bed where her mother and father were soundly sleeping. Feeling comforted by the sight, she once again closed her eyes, but those horrific visions were still fresh in her mind. Rinka realized that the nightmares were becoming more frequent over the past few weeks and even months once she really thought about the many nights of lost sleep. From conversations she’d overheard from her tribal elders and her kinfolk, she knew that the people in Roman…

The engines roared and the wheels were turning faster and faster.The night sky hid the pathway. The plane was propelled forward at full speed. You could feel the plane's weight bounce up and down trying to take off with little room left on the runway the plane finally had enough speed to fly into the night sky. The wheels on the plane slowly raised off the ground and the passengers in the plane felt a joint once the runway let go of it’s grasp on the plane’s wheels. The plane’s nose slanted at a…

My eyes slowly flutter open, when they come into focus I look around. The lights are sill dim, but Shelby, Dr. Sherry, and even Sophie have all have left, leaving me in a soothing silince. How long have I been out, it couldn't have been that long, could it? I ask myself. I wonder where they could be, then I see a white door out in front of me, realizing I'm still laying down I sit up, I then look down and see a medium sleeve dark chocolate brown shirt, I slowly pick it up and sniff it. Once…

A day on the horse farm I’ am frightened out of a deep sleep by someone calling my name in a rambunctious voice, and a light gleaming through my eyes. Dazed, I peel my eyes to see my father fixed in the doorway to my chaotic room. He yells that I need to get in gear that it is 4:00 a.m., and I’m wasting daylight by dragging around and taking my time. I rumble around disoriented to find my clothes and get dressed. The whole time I’ am wondering in my head why I get up this early to visit the…

One other character defined by images of darkness rather than light is the vengeful mother of Grendel. Invariably we tend to define people by their homes, where they choose to dwell. For instance, Grendel’s mother lives in dark “fearful waters, / the cold depths” (69, 1260-1261) where no light can penetrate and “dark moors” (72, 1405) must be crossed to get to her aquatic lair. Because she hails from a cold world of darkness, part of her is the darkness. Thus she is a most frightening monster. A…

I awaken early, and tiptoe around my softly sleeping sister over to the window. With the sleeve of my nightgown, I clear off the fog on my window, and open it wide, leaning out into a chilly world. The breeze whips around me, as I take a deep breath of fresh air. However, I can't help feeling strange. Every day I sit this window, and watch to the dawn turn to day, but today the sky doesn't hypnotize me and take into a dreamland. The purple and blue-ish gray sky somehow seems drab, and sorrowful…