Night

8:00 P.M. The crowds on the beach were in a festive mood. Thousands had gathered for the big show and the Comet Roman was not disappointing. The comets colors kept shifting as the sunlight hit the giant ball of ice. It had taken on a reddish purple hue and the crowd cheered as the first of the meteorites streaked across the sky. The crowd oohed and aahed every minute or so as a new one appeared. Each meteor’s trail was different, some were white some blue or blue. The favorites were the red.…

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90), the Post-Impressionist artist, is one of the most famous of all modern Dutch Painters, but his emotional and disturbed characteristics sometimes overshadows his work. To fully comprehend the remarkable impact of Vincent Van Gogh has had on art history and our culture, it is important first to examine the artistic and cultural environment in which Van Gogh was acquainted. Van Gogh’s religion was central in shaping both the images he painted and the artistic techniques…

Shakespeare is known for his complex, dull stories; however, in his play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, written in 1596, Shakespeare incorporates many comedic elements. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a play about a love that goes ary in a forest when Puck starts to use magic and accidentally makes the four lovers, Lysander and Hermia and Demetrius, and Helena, love the wrong person. During this time, some Mechanics try to perform the play of Pyramus and Thisbe, which will be shown at the Duke and…

Somebody once said,” I am strong, because i’ve been weak. I am fearless, because I’ve been afraid. I am wise, because i’ve been foolish. Elie Wiesel’s book Night tells a story about a teenager who is experiencing the horrors of the Holocaust. He is separated from his Mother and sisters, but stays with his father. To make Eliezer worse the categories were Religion/Faith, Self-Preservation, and silence. Towards the middle of the book, Eliezer has started to lose Faith in God. A little bit…

The fates, also known as the Moirae and the Daughters of Night, are three very important Greek goddesses (Moirae). They control the fate of each person’s lives from the day a person is born until the day they die no matter god or human. Each of the fates had a specific role in the deciding of everyone’s life. No one could ever outwit the fates. Not even Zeus or Hera tried to outwit them. People would think the fates were sometimes cruel, but they were just doing what was expected of them by the…

temperatures, stomachs growling begging for food, marching in the cold without any shoes, taking a quick nap in the snow and not waking up. Only a small fraction of mortifying events during the Holocaust, that a young Jewish teenager experienced. Night is a book by Elie Wiesel where he describes his terrifying experiences with his father in Nazi concentration camps. Before the Holocaust began, Eliezer and his family lived in Sighet, Transylvania. There Eliezer’s parents ran a store; in which his…

partners, and friends. Deception is a thread the is sewed through all of Shakespeare's analysis of love. Shakespeare’s comedies A Midsummer’s Night Dream and Twelfth Night, serve as prime examples of this them. With deception seeped into every relationship addressed in each of…

Shakespeare has a huge impact on the English language. Shakespeare makes love out to be complicated In the play Twelfth Night. Which leads to the statement that love is not just handed to you, you must work for it because love is never easy. Duke and Olivia believe they are “in love” throughout this play but is it really love? Shakespeare conveys the theme of love through touching connections. Orsino believes that he needs more love until he gets sick of it, “If music be the food of love, play…

In the night one is frightened trying to determine whether one should undergo the perception of being fearful and unattended or to be hopeful and wanting to get through the position one is in during war and the separation of loved and dear ones. This is the darkness and negativity affecting people who may have been in the holocaust. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, portrays such graphic and traumatizing experiences one may have gone through in the holocaust, which establishes night and…

The novel The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, by Yukio Mishima, focuses on the story of Ryuji. Ryuji, a young naive Japanese male, believes in glory being obtained at sea. Yet nevertheless he falls in love with Fusako, a lady of the shore. Fusako's son, Nuboru and his gang, reject the adult world as sentimental and hypocritical, preferring to believe in objectivity. Noboru and Fusako's ideals remain unchanged throughout the novel. The novel is divided into winter and summer,…