A Certain Night Questions

In this poem, symbolism is used to help reader’s find deeper meaning in the little things included and show that everything comes back to the father’s fear of the child he adores growing older and more independent. “In a room full of books in a world of stories, he can recall not one, and soon he thinks the boy will give up on his father.” This sentence makes a reader assume that the story the five year old so

The mood for this book is gloomy. The author wants us to feel gloomy and sad when Paul’s son won’t talk to him and cuts Paul off from his life. Paul’s son cuts Paul off by moving to Ecuador. Another example when the author makes us feel gloomy is when Paul leaves Adrienne. Paul leaves Adrienne to be with his son who he barely talks to. It makes the reader feel very sad because Paul really loved Adrienne and wanted to stay with her.

The voice when you are listening to the story is sorta dull and empty. As if the speaker is describing a daily routine, surrounded by a cold lifeless environment. However, the voice softens as the speaker relives a past memory with their late father. Showing deep affection towards his father. Similarly the voice remains light hearted as speaker mentions a supposed encounter with his father but realized it wasn’t his father. The closing at the end; the voice sounds as if the speaker prepares his dinner and sarcastically, to feel, shares the pleasure of his own loneliness.

Night is an autobiographical novella written by Elie Wiesel a young jewish boy who tells of his experiences during the Holocaust. Elie is from the small town of Sighet, Transylvania. This book begins in late 1941 and chronicles Elie's life through the end of the war in 1945.He had two older sisters, Hilda and Beatrice Wiesel and a younger sister, Tzipora Wiesel. Elie spoke many languages including Hungarian, Romanian, German and he grew up

In reading, Night by Elie Wiesel and A Man's Search For Meaning by , many stories of the torturous life in the concentration camps during the second world war. In each book, the reader gets a different point of view from each book because in Night, you get to read about a teenager's view and in the book, A Man's Search For Meaning, you get to read about a middle aged man's view. In the book, Night, Elie, his family and his community go through a system of indoctrination which in each step it makes you seem less and less of a human. The first step is that the Hungarian police made all the Jewish people wear yellow stars, so they could be picked out easily. The next step is that all the Jewish people had to get rid of all their valuable

The dark tone of the story is established almost immediately in the piece by the writers focus on death. An example is seen by the reader at the beginning of the story with the threat of death upon any man who accepts the challenge of the trying to figure out where the princesses go. This immediate focus on the intense subject of death establishes a dark and almost nerve wracking threat of dying. This tone is then furthered by the description of one suitors failure to stay awake throughout the night and when he fails to give an answer his head was chopped off. Through the intense tone of death established at the beginning of the story, the reader experiences a dark tense feeling while reading through the

The opening sentence of the story, “Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey…” sets the somber mood and tone for the rest of the story.

When I first read Night first thing that came to mind was the story seem more of a tragedy. However, I wanted to challenge myself and find humor in what I was reading, a genre that I am not familiar with in regards to writing. I looked at the words and read them differently, with a sense of humor, to me the author seem like was mocking her father, (Pokrass, n.d.).

Throughout the whole story, a very bleak mood is portrayed. The setting contributes to this gloominess. For example, the weather is awful. James, seeing how cold it was, said, “I seen the smoke coming out o’ the cow’s nose.” Later he says, “The sleet keep falling. Falling like rain now- plenty, plenty.” Once James turns up his collar to protect himself

11. The weather and Mr. White’s behavior bring a dull and gloomy mood to the beginning of the story. The Whites are located in a remote location away from people, which gives the story a secluded feeling. The cold and rainy weather creates a gloomy and eerie feeling. Mr. White is disappointed that he did not win the game of chess, which gives the story a downbeat

The darker auditory imagery helps to emphasize the inner conflict of the girl protagonist, whereas the laughing imagery continues to demonstrate the nostalgia and joy the protagonists experience in the woods. When describing the air/atmosphere of the forest, I used the adjectives frosty, blue, and gold multiple times in different parts of the story. While frosty and blue have colder connotations, gold is a warmly connotated word, and the sensory feeling perceived is of being cold, but then warming up, which is also seen in the characters in their personalities throughout the narrative. As frosty and gold are antonyms in this sense, this helps to employ the feeling of something turning into the opposite, specifically the protagonists’

“Acquainted with the Night” is a well written poem. Before I read the poem, I believed it would express how the speaker is more familiar with the night life than day life. Instead, the poem is a sonnet comparing a sad lonely person to the darkness of the night. Darkness is symbol for sadness, loneliness, and depression. That description fits the speaker. The speaker is walking on a rainy, dark night. He sees a watchman that is on duty but he does not make eye contact with him to avoid having conversation with the watchman. Then, the speaker stopped because he heard a cry that seem to be far away. He realizes the cry is not for him so he looks up to “an unearthly height”, which may be the moon, to determine what time it was; but whatever time

“Acquainted with the night” by Robert Frost, gives an example of something so common in the modern world. However, in 1928 many people did not talk nor recognize the effects that depression had on a person. This poem gave something taboo a voice and turned it into a feeling.

What is going on during the time period of your book? (war, drought, excess of money, prejudices, political unrest, etc.)

It was the second night of the stars covering me like a cape and the definite smell of the wilderness filling my nose. The darkness of the night was a crow that swooped down and surrounded the backdrop of Haliburton forest that was illuminated just hours earlier. All of the vibrantly painted trees were turned into ghostly silhouettes and the cabins that lined the street disappeared, victim of the darkness. The light that came through the gap between the window and the curtain tried to open my eyes like a crowbar prying open my shut lids. The stars were like effulgent slivers of silver that freckled the spill of ink that was the sky and engulfed the burning trees of bonfire reds and golds. The lively capriccio and leaf-carpeted floor of the forest were hushed by the night. The darkness melted the day like the sea melts castles of sand. I turned on my side, the warmth of my sleeping bag making me flushed. I felt the heat rising underneath my eyes and I looked around the cabin. Right above me was a wooden plank however it looked just like a contour to me, just like most of the other things in the room. Right beside me was a window which had its curtain slightly agar so I could see the stars outside. On the right was a lone, empty wooden shelf and beside it, another bunk bed where my friends Alyana and Erica were sleeping. Anavi was sleeping above me and her snoring resonated in the room, but that wasn't what was keeping me awake. A certain restlessness was taking over me and