Darkness At Noon Analysis

The book “A Night Divided,” is a great book. It is about a girl named Gerta and her family. She has an older brother Fritz, a brother Dominic, her father (papa) and her mother Frau Lowe. The Berlin Wall had just gone up after the Second World War separating East and West Germany, and her and her family live in the West. One night her brother Dominic and her father decide they need to get through the wall for work without guards noticing because the consequences could be deadly. Her brother and Father make it across but they cannot find a way to come back because the wall has been added on and is even more dangerous now. Gerta ends up not being able to talk to her father or brother for at least 4 years. One day Gerta was walking to school with her best friend Anna when she see’s her brother, Dominic on the other side of the wall and waves. She eventually ended up seeing her dad to but then she got caught by an officer by the name of Officer Muller. She ended up getting away from the Officer but she knew he would be watching her every move from now on. But everyday when she goes to school she see’s them on the platform and her dad is doing a dance that he always did for her as a kid when they were little. But, he continues doing the digging scene from the dance trying to give her a signal that he wants her to do something or he is going to do something. But if Gerta tries to cross that wall it could be deadly and we don’t know what would happen.

     The other two characters of the novel who represent his opposing sides are Sonya Marmeladov and Svidrigailov. Sonya represents the warm side of Raskolnikov. She is a prostitute forced into that field because her father drinks away the money in the family. She is

“But of that – of that he [Raskolnikov] had no recollection, and yet every minute he felt that he had forgotten something he ought to remember. He worried and tormented himself trying to remember.” (2.3.1)

With that thought in mind, we are back to looking at how Arthur Koestler portrayed the character of Rubashov as a vehicle to illustrate the struggle between the ideas of the party and of the individual. The conspicuous disagreement of the Communist Party is the contention between

An Hour Before Daylight, a memoir written by Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, was a brief recounting of his childhood experience of rural Georgia. Throughout the book that read like a diary, Carter provided interconnecting stories detailing the world he grew up in and how the rural society changed. He was born in Plains, Georgia as the oldest of 4 siblings. Carter lived there for the first four years until 1928 when his family moved to Archery, a town just beyond Plains. Unlike Archery which withered away after the arrival of cars and tractors, Plains was home to productive farms and devoted people. Carter detailed how important it was to learn the tools of the trade when it came to farming as a way to support the family. He talked about how he and his family interacted with those they employed. Carter’s memoir provided a first-hand view of race relations in rural Georgia through the explanation of what occurred during rural segregation, his recountings of his childhood relationships, the relationships between his family and the townspeople.

these people with their lives and the lives of their loved ones, the Jews were “persuaded”

There is also compelling evidence, however, that suggests Europe was in a period of darkness at this time. For example, from 1095 to 1192 many Europeans were constantly engaged in holy wars as Crusaders fighting Muslims in the Middle East (Crusader Packet). These wars were brutal and showed a dark side of humanity. For example, Crusades Document A describes a siege on Muslims in the city of Jerusalem from a Christian Crusader’s perspective stating, “it was a just and splendid judgment of God that this place should be filled with the blood of the unbelievers.” Another example of darkness and setback in European society was the devastating Bubonic Plague that swept Europe in the 1300s killing half its population (Movie Talk – Black Death). This

People often take for granted their right to vote. During civil rights African American men had a hard time registering to vote and women all woman had no voting rights. In the historical fiction novel, Midnight Without a Moon by Linda Williams Jackson, the main character Rose Lee Carter is affected by black people being shot for registering to vote. One person that was shot was a person named Levi Jackson who worked on her grandparents farm. African American men had a hard time registering to vote unlike white men in the civil rights era. In the story author altered and used history to add drama and show people what used to happen when African American men registered to vote or helped others register to vote.

Before Night Falls tells the story of Reinaldo Arenas, a Cuban writer who suffered for many years and dealt with tragic circumstances all throughout his life. Living during Fidel Castro’s harsh regime as a homosexual male led to several years of torture, for he was imprisoned, but ultimately set free. Additionally, his writing was bold and went against everything that Castro represented, and he took extreme risks to get his work published in other countries. The world heard the prolific voice of Arenas, while the Cuban government, his fellow writers, and even his lovers tried to silence him. Arenas was an extremely important figure in Latin culture. This is not simply because his work was profound; his life gives us a deeper look at the difficulties of struggling with homosexuality, masculinity, and finding freedom. He embodies resilience, charisma, determination, and at the same time fragility, weakness and pain.

Human nature can be analyzed through feelings, characteristics, and behavior. Humans are capable of expressing different emotions such as hate, frustration, remorse, happiness and other emotions depending on the situation they are encountering.Various aspects of human nature can be observed through many forms of media. Often times humans are portrayed in a negative way, however there are certain cases where they are portrayed positively, like in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. Evil acts, discrimination towards others, and perseverance for survival, are all apart of human nature.

The protagonist, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a former student, decides to murder and rob an old pawn broker, Alyona Ivanovna, not due to his desperate need of money, but due to a theory he wants to test. Raskolnikov leaves no evidence which would lead the investigation to him; however, the police lieutenant in charge of the case, Porfiry Petrovich, a meticulous thinker, understands Raskolnikov’s theory and has a big role in influencing the student to confess. Between the murder and the confession, Raskolnikov undergoes a long and painful process of thought. His friend, Razumikhin Prokofych, along with a prostitute and his future significant other, Sonia Semyonovna Marmeladova, are part of the protagonist’s path. In the end, Sonia turns out to be Raskolnikov’s salvation as she helps him find redemption and start living

Rubashov, though a committed Marxist, during his time in the prison seems vexed by the notion that the end justifies the means because he has himself seen that the final result is often not what is seen in the present moment but the truth that becomes apparent only in the light of retrospective thought. Rubashov realizes that it is only history that can pass judgment and thus, the shooting of B. and thirty others by No. 1 will be decided later “He who is in the wrong must pay; he who is in the right will be absolved. That is the law of historical credit;

Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon depicts the fallacious logic of a totalitarian regime through the experiences of Nicolas Salmanovitch Rubashov. Rubashov had fought in the revolution and was once part of the Central Committee of the Party, but he is arrested on charges of instigating attempted assassinations of No. 1, and for taking part in oppositional, counter-revolutionary activities, and is sent to a Soviet prison. Rubashov, in his idle pacing throughout his cell, recollects his past with the Party. He begins to feel impulses of guilt, most especially in those moments he was required to expel devoted revolutionaries from the Party, sending them to their death. These

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemmingway. Belmonte was one of the most popular bullfighters in his early days. When Belmonte decided to come out of retirement to bullfight once again, he knew that he couldn’t live up to those legend bullfighters that came before him and that he grew up watching and admiring. As you can say, it was awkward when Belmonte would fight on the same day as Pedro Romeo and then get overshadowed by Pedro and realizing he isn’t the bullfighter he used to be. I chose Belmonte because he symbolizes the decaying values of the entire Lost Generation, that often that’s how I feel and can relate to Belmonte in this generation.

John Steinbeck, the author of Of Mice and Men, conveys sunlight and darkness in the book by symbolizing sunlight as happiness and darkness as a bad thing. John Steinbeck uses these symbols throughout the book to narrate certain segments in the book. He also uses the symbols to aid the reader to interpret the story more. The author chose to uses those images to show that things can be good at first but they can also end up being very bad at the end.