Analysis Of Let There Be Dark By Paul Bogard

In the story a young boy decides to go hunting in the night and goes through a revelation as he witnesses an everyday act of the battle between light and darkness as the sun rises. Although set in a different place and time, both authors express a common universal theme: life is a constant battle between light and darkness in our everyday lives. This theme can be seen through a compare and contrast of powerful symbols, transforming settings and misguided characters.

Seeing an increase in light pollution and a decrease in natural darkness, Paul Bogard in his essay “Let there be Darkness” uses logic to persuade the reader to preserve darkness. Opening the essay with a personal experience from the past, he convinces the reader of the danger of light pollution. The author uses statistics, pathos, and science to support his thesis.

Doyle uses negative words and descriptions of the atmosphere with the motif of darkness to bring the reader into the mysterious and miserable atmosphere of a 19th century London.

Bradbury writes “He stood entranced, not unlike a night moth, stunned by the illumination, and then drawn toward it.” With this simile, the man is now transfixed by a bright light and unable to move. This is a major shift in the setting and feel because the reader now feels an anxious or agitated feeling instead of the previous calm and content feeling. This simile leaves the reader wondering who is behind this transfixing light and what will that person do with the protagonist. Bradbury uses this suspense and wondering to allow the reader to really feel what the protagonist is

In the poem “Gretel in Darkness”, the author Louise Gluck writes based off of the classic Brothers Grimm fairytale “Hansel and Gretel”. Gluck visualizes herself as Gretel, seeing and feeling from her point of view after being faced with her terrible encounter with the witch. Gretel is distraught and feels as though no one is there for her or cares about what she is feeling. She is overwhelmed with this certain sensation of darkness. Darkness is a word filled with a strong meaning. It represents the absence of light, an important aspect used in sight. As a result darkness denies humans this sense which can make a person feel trapped, unable to see or protect oneself. The speaker is haunted by her past unable fulfill her expected “happy

In the essay, “Our Vanishing Night”, Verlyn Klinkenborg discusses light pollution. Light pollution is due to human’s use of artificial light during the night. Klinkenborg uses examples of how this type of pollution effects not only humans and their biological clocks, but how it effects other organisms in the wild. In this essay, I will analyze the author argument and aspects of it that includes authority, topic, tone, context, exigence, and audience to determine whether the essay was effective or ineffective in getting Klinkenborg’s argument across to the reader.

In Holly Wren Spaulding’s essay, “In Defense of Darkness,” her main claim is that we have fallen away from darkness and immersed ourselves in a society of lightness. Furthermore, she claims this has lead humans to lose touch with basic human emotion as well as the sensual and spiritual experience true darkness has to offer. Spaulding makes this claim evident through exceptional use of personal testimony and copious appeals to value.

The experience of darkness is both individual and universal. Within Emily Dickinson’s “We grow accustomed to the Dark” and Robert Frost’s “Acquainted with the Night,” the speakers engage in an understanding of darkness and night as much greater than themselves. Every individual has an experience of the isolation of the night, as chronicled in Frost’s poem, yet it is a global experience that everyone must face, on which Dickinson’s poem elaborates. Through the use of rhythm, point of view, imagery, and mood, each poet makes clear the fact that there is no single darkness that is too difficult to overcome.

In Black Hawk's it is mentioned "The sun rose dim on us in the morning, and at night it sunk in a dark cloud, and looked like a ball of fire." This quote shows that Black Hawk uses the rhetorical device of atmosphere to show readers a view of what his surroundings were. By Black Hawk giving the reader a image of what the situation looked

In the beginning of Bogard's essay, he shares a short anecdote about his cabin at night. This hook lets the audience know that Bogard has been, and seen, the sky and the fact that it is slowly fading away. The anecdote also has a lot of imagery and affects the audience's emotions a little. It makes us feel worried, wanting to read more, hoping for a solution. Bogard’s essay was effective because of the amount of evidence, the reasoning to illustrate that evidence, and the imagery/ word choice.

Bogard believes in the preservation of natural darkness. He begins to build his argument thru imagery, explaining its worth and what people today haven't been able to see. Not only that but the article itself is all about how in today's society, people are their own cause of trouble. Not only are they affecting themselves,but the environment around them: including many nocturnal animals. By them allowing to have artificial light all through the day, more and more disorders and pollution is taking place.

In the beginning of the bible, the world was dark. Then God created light in order to make it brighter. However, when the God is not here to protect the light, Night overtook. It is a time of darkness. It is also a place where people cannot see and help each other. Because of the faith in God, the darkness, hopeless of Night, and the period of Night, Elle Wiesel’s famous short novel is called “Night”, which is very significant for Elle Wiesel as well as the Jews during World War II.

In his newspaper article, “Let There Be Dark”, Paul Bogard tries to persuade his audience to stop light pollution by pointing out the negative effects light pollution is causing. He always tries to persuade them by using personal anecdotes to get on the light-hearted side of his audience. Bogard discusses the health issues that accompanies a lack of darkness to make his audience understand that the effects touch everyone and not just a certain group of people. By mentioning that our bodies need the hormone melatonin, and without this hormone our own bodies would soon begin to create a war with our health, he urges people to cut the use of too much light and embrace the darkness. This makes Bogard’s audience come to realization about the importance

He states, “Our bodies need darkness to produce the hormone melatonin, which keeps certain cancers from developing, and our bodies need darkness for sleep. Sleep disorders have been linked to diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and depression, and recent research suggests one main cause of ‘short sleep’ is ‘long light.’ ” This quote directly notifies the audience of the health issues related to lack of darkness when sleeping. The audience can immediately infer that they should switch of lights and keep their room dark as these issues are definitely relatable. By using scientific evidence, Bogart is able to make the audience realize why they should switch of

The Author argues to persuade readers that artificial light can be Devastating to the ecosystem and humans. In paragraph 2, He stated that, “Due to light pollution, it has been destroying earth’s ecosystem; That all the nocturnal animals can’t genuinely focus on hunting. Nocturnals depend on the night but with the night becoming artificially day, nocturnals can’t act accordingly.” The author also stress that the light pollution has caused medical issues within our bodies. In paragraph 3, the section in the passage stated that, “Our bodies need the darkness to produce melatonin which keep cancers from developing.” research stated that sleep disorders have been linked to diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular diseases and depression. So without night,