Horrible Science: Frightening Light Analysis

Analyzing The Light and the Glory: A Comprehensive Review of the Most Popular Christian Interpretation of American History Ever Written

Steinbeck uses light imagery by saying the quote(pg.38)”Instantly the table was brilliant with light, and of the shade threw its brightness straight downward, leaving the corners of the bunkhouse still in dusk”. This quote shows visual imagery because it represents light being shown on a table and some of the light going downward. It shows a scene of foreboding because it says corners of dusk representing darkness meaning later in the book something bad will happen. Steinbeck represents dark imagery in this quote (pg.44) He walked to the other end of the bunkhouse and turned on the second light. “Darker’n hell in here”. This quote represents kinetic imagery because it represents Carson walking. It represents tactile imagery because it is touching

Author Karl Jacoby, Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History, depicts the events of three ethnic communities that led to the demise of Apaches within the Arizona territory. Karl Jacoby's Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the violence of History, explores the events leading up to the death of 140 Apaches encamped at Aravaipa. This event which took place near a U.S. military base known as Grant Camp shed light to the justified actions of grouped communities versus the Apaches. The accused groups of Anglo-American, Mexican American, and Tohono O'odham took part in a brutal massacre that would later be acquitted of any wrongdoing. The efforts of the federal government were not enough to aid or bring justice towards the Apaches. Author Jacoby has pieced together the geographical networks which sparked a chronological list of minor and major conflicts between the other ethnic communities and the Apaches. The Author's purpose of Shadows at Dawn is to highlight the injustice through oral histories, primary sourced documents, and various perspectives that factored in Apache existence.

Through “statisticulation,” advertisers and propagandists misinform their audience with statistics in different forms. “The Darkening Shadow” is a prime example. Distributed by the First National Bank of Boston, a map shows what portion of our national income is now being taken, and spent, by the federal government. To show this, it shades the areas west of the Mississippi to indicate that federal spending has become equal to the total incomes of the people of those states. The states west of the Mississippi have relatively large areas compared to the east, and makes for a more convincing visual. However, while those states have larger areas, they have much smaller populations and, on average, make considerably less than states farther east

Many teenage kids have had the feeling before that they have tons of pressure on them. In Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club and H.G Bissinger’s novel Friday Night Lights teenagers have a difficult time dealing with all of the pressure that is being placed on them by their parents and the expectations that their parents have for them. In “Two Kinds” from Amy Tan’s novel the Joy Luck Club Jing Mei’s mother is trying to push her to become a prodigy and Jing Mei is beginning to crack under the pressure. Also in H.G Bissinger’s “Dreaming of Heroes” Mike Winchell is trying to live up to his late father’s legacy of being a great Permian football player.

Art might not be viewed the same way as another individual could. Some people could “see” or “look” at a painting, distinguishing their perspective or interpretation of an artwork. When I “look” at Alma Thomas’ Gray Night Phenomenon, it’s with a goal to identify what the art depicts. I would probably glance at the painting, not taking my time to analyze its different features. At first glance, I register the painting as simply a piece of artwork with a blue background and yellow specks in a pattern, however I don’t take much thoughtful processes to take place and bring emotions into viewing the piece. When one “looks” at something, it is more routine-like and to figure its function, without much appreciation of the artwork. In contrast to “looking”

Does every family love and respect one another? Are all families in a healthy relationship with each other? In the book Mad Shadows, the answer to these questions are clearly displayed. Mad shadows, is a fictional novel written by Marie-Claire Blair. It tells the story of an unusual family who are in a prolong feud with one another, which is the by-product of their illusions. The character, Louise, is the mother of the family. Her superficial view of life and constant denial of truth is the root cause of the dysfunction, misery, and jealousy in her family. Which consequently, fuels her own death and destruction by the end of her tragic life.

Throughout the book, All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, there were many symbols that were present. One symbol that stood out to me the most in the book was the radio. This symbol stood out the most because of how the characters manipulated it throughout the story.

On the front cover of every novel, there is a title that pertains to the book’s story. Even though some titles are more meaningful than others, understanding the reasoning behind the naming of a book is vital to fully comprehending major concepts and ideas within the book’s pages. Anthony Doerr’s novel, All the Light We Cannot See, is no exception. The book’s title is vital to the major theme within the book’s plot, and, without understanding the title, the books loses much of his meaning. The title, All the Light We Cannot See, portrays the theme of the internal integrity within the novel’s the characters that inevitably was drowned out by the horrors of war.

The novel All The Light We Cannot See, was written by Anthony Doerr. The novel was set during World War Two era and features two parallel stories with characters from opposite points of view. Doers tells the story of how both characters grow up through adversity and how they overcome their personal struggles. Marie-Laure is one of the main characters. She goes blind and has to learn how to navigate life alone after he father leaves her in the care of her Uncle Etienne. Werner, the second main character, overcame being an orphan and makes a life decision based upon his worst fear. Both characters, though living separate but parallel lives, share similar life experiences that are connected with numerous symbolic objects. Throughout the novel Doerr uses symbolic objects to create a connection for the reader between Werner and Marie-Laure. Doerr’s use of this method to bridge the characters together is done so with the use of several items such as the radio, shells and mollusks, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and the Sea of Flames.

All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr, should be made a required reading book for multiple reasons. Often times required reads focus on the old classics such as Twain, Shakespeare, and Dickens, while these books are chosen for good reason- they are timeless works of art- students often overlook great books written today. When every book you are required to read, either good or bad, is at least one hundred years old, students often forget that new great books are being written every year. In All the Light We Cannot See, while the setting takes place over 70 years ago during World War II Doerr finished the novel in 2014. The novel intertwines two very different point of views before, during, and after the second world war: one a blind

Night is a memoir by Elie Wiesel about his time with the Nazis during the holocaust. It encompasses the time span of life in his village before when all the residents heard whispers and rumors of the Germans that they barely believed, to being freed at last by the Red Army. Throughout this time we watch Wiesel transform from a man who adamantly believes in his faith to one who believes that the Nazis stole his God from him. Ellie struggles to to maintain his faith and finally gives it up for good.

Depression is the leading mental illness worldwide, affecting millions of people every day. As one of the most common mental illnesses, it can occur to anyone, at any age, and to people of any race or ethnic group. With his book Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, William Styron became of the first people to publicly acknowledge his struggling battle with depression. Darkness Visible is an intense and haunting account of Styron’s own suicidal depression in which he reminds us of the toll that this dreadful illness can have on an individual. As Styron describes his own descent into depression, he tells about the place that he was in, “the despair beyond despair” as he describes it to be. Since its publication, his memoir has been appreciated throughout the world and become a helping hand for people around the world who are suffering from depression. Styron’s description of his experiences resonates with people in a deep and profound way, turning his work into an advocate for the movement for the awareness for depression

Light, a concept that has been worked with for many years dating back to 500 B.C. Pythagoras hypothesized that humans perceive light due to the human eyes ability to emit rays upon the environment and the emittance gives a human his or her sight (Sekuler). Afterward, human intellectuals started making it more concise to present day knowledge of light. This development of light came from two intellectuals named Christian Huygens and Isaac Newton. Newton exclaimed during the 1700s that light was a stream of particles carrying energy but Huygens, Newton’s contemporary, thought that light needed this invisible “ether” in order for these streams to make light travel. Then, a couple hundred years later, modern scientists such as Albert Einstein, Thomas Young, and Augustin Fresnel proved Isaac’s and Huygens’ hypotheses of light (Rossing, 23-24). This is how the basis of light was created.

Other phrases throughout the first four pages use words like "nightmare", "destroy", "haunt", and "anguish" to attract readers to how seriously society takes awareness of science. These phrases get readers to feel the urgency of the views against science in society. The dark phrasing successfully shows that society has taken a responsible view against incorrect scientific application.