Darkness

The father and the son lived in dark and dreary world, filled with violent people. In the book The Road, the father looked at his son for hope and mercy. The son carries the fire within him throughout the book showing that he has the light and hope to stay positive and survive through the rough and ashed world. The motif of this novel is light versus dark because they live in a dark place that they are trying to escape by making fires and the son carrying the fire. The way they lived was hard…

Sonny’s Blues Light and Darkness motifs One of the most revered of James Baldwin’s stories is Sonny’s Blues; wildly debated for its variety of topics the short story embodies. Racial discrimination, emotional respite through music (Jazz), Harlem’s quandary and Light and Dark imagery are some of the various topics he conveys in this story. James Baldwin contrasts light and dark motifs to denote the narrator’s feelings about different situations he faced in his life. The narrator employs light and…

with nothing but your thoughts taunting you. Unless there’s a door in clear view, you have no way out. Unfortunately for millions of Americans, this is the reality for them. This darkness is called depression. Sufferers of depression are exposed to some shade of darkness and as much as they try to escape from the darkness, it seems impossible. It’s like you’re running and you know where you want to go but instead of getting there the easiest way possible, you have to go up a mountain, down a…

while Frost goes full circle in his poem, with no hope for something better. Dickinson interprets darkness as an unknown future or a challenge. For example, the character in the poem enters into darkness where "not a Moon discloses a sign" and experiences the "Evenings of the Brain," which can mean emotional or mental depression as they grope about in darkness. Initially, Frost’s description of darkness is similar to that of Dickinson’s; Frost’s character walks out into the night, which…

explains exactly why light pollution has spread. "We are diurnal creatures, with eyes adapted to living in the sun's light” (Klinkenborg pg.478). He explains that humans have filled the night with light, so we have an easier time adapting to the darkness. However, with this comes consequences with our actions. Klinkenborg is effective when persuading the audience that light pollution is a problem. Therefore, there need to be actions taken through sympathetic examples of animals that are affected…

With all the darkness around him, he sees her as a light. When he talks to her on the steps, he remembers it like this, "The light from the lamp opposite our door caught the white curve of her neck, lit up her hair that rested there and, falling, lit up the hand upon…

instead I will him to be calm. Not all of us that live in the dark are so bad. There are some that I tend to avoid, especially if I was a young human. The dark ones, the creatures that don't hide in the closet, the ones that are standing in the darkness and are a part of it. They are the reason I have watched so many humans fear the dark even though they are certain there is nothing there. Those creatures are the reason you humans walk into a room and then forget why you’ve come. But…

Carely Mendez Paul Bogard wrote “Let There Be Dark” in order to talk about the problem that is being faced in today’s world, the increasing use of artificial lights in the night time and the decreasing appreciation in the beauty of the darkness. He wrote it in order to persuade citizens as well as cities to take the problem more serious; he wants them to become a part of the solution by doing their part like turning the lights off late at night. He was able to accomplish his purpose by using…

staring me in the face. Empty, meaningless nothing, full of invisible eyes poking holes in the walls I have surrounded myself with all my life. The darkness probed the deepest corners of my mind, greedily drinking in my memory, my thought, my existence. I struggled only for a brief moment, then gave in to the decedent feeling of giving up. Instantly the darkness lifted its weight off of my limbs, my lungs took in false air, but my heart did not beat. I took my first steps into the dark, feeling…

isolation, depression, and the idea of nothingness in a man’s life and how this has a monumental impact on the way he lives it, invading every crevice and taking over. Although the story seems quite mundane, it is an ode to those who live in a world of darkness and shadow and struggle to find worth in life. It introduces the reader to the world when you’re depressed and emotionally vacant, crushed by all the nothingness. In the first few lines of the…