Left Hand Of Darkness By Ursula Le Guin

The story begins with a description of the husband. "He was a good husband, a good father" (Le Guin 3), "He was always gentle" (Le Guin 3). These lines create confusion, it makes the audience question. In order for the questions to be answered finalizing the story would have to be done. This foreshadows what will occur later on the story. Le Guin tells about how they first met and about how his sophistication attracted her.

The main theme in the book, The Dark is Rising, is obviously the conflict between the dark and light. It is one of the many suspenseful fantasy books about the battle between good and evil, Susan Cooper wrote about the dark, light, and the mystical powers.

When readers read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, they are taken the World State, a dystopian society where the citizens are attracted to material goods, immediate happiness, and drugs that distract themselves from reality. Do Readers begin to wonder if the society we live in today become a dystopian society? While comparing societies, we begin to realize that our society is almost identical to the World State. Our societies are very similar, but we will never become a dystopian society like the World State, for we are not controlled by material goods, immediate happiness and drugs, we are controlled by our emotions.

Do you like horror books? Well if you do you’ll like this one. The book “After Dark” by James Leck, is about a boy named Charlie Harker, who has just finished school. He soon finds out that he’ll have to help renovate a old family inn his family owns. There are 252 pages in this book. ``The point of view in this book is third person objective. The genre of this book is horror.

Howard Thurman removes the window dressing in the African American experience of segregation in America. Thurman in his book, “The Luminous Darkness” paints an obscure portrait that delved deep into the consciousness of Black men, women and children freshly freed from chattel slavery. Two hundred years of slavery and one hundred years of darkness seeping into each soul perpetuated by an evil explained only through the Word of God. Although this book was published in the 60’s, the stigma segregation continues resonate in the souls of those who remember and perhaps even in the souls of those who do not.

All the light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr, chronicles the lives and relationship between Marie and Werner, two children who grew up in France and Germany. The society around them forces discriminatory ideals that cloud their perception of the world, but they find its meaning through their own self-definition. In this, they are both guided by a single radio and the message and legacy that it contains. Throughout the book, the author isolated the two characters, but also created subtle connections between the two. The most important of which would be the radio. It created a bond between the two where they learned from each other’s experiences and struggles. All the Light We Cannot See recreates a new picture of the world by contrasting the two separate journeys taken by Marie- Laure LeBlanc and Werner Pfennig to gain that image, which is guided by the power of a radio and the message it contains, ultimately leading to the meeting of the two characters that officially forms an image of the world where one’s actions are valued more than one’s physical features.

In “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula Le Guin, the informally-speaking narrator depicts a cookie-cutter utopia with perpetually happy citizens that sing and dance in the music-filled streets during the Festival of Summer. However, under one of the beautiful public buildings lays a child, no older than ten years-old, who lays in its own excrement. Although the citizens know the emancipated child is there, they refuse to act upon the child’s suffering, for their happiness depends entirely on the child’s abominable misery. Through ethos, the narrator illustrates this utopian society with a casual tone and frequently asks the audience for their input. Le Guin’s fairy-tale introduction of the story establishes her credibility through her extensive knowledge and understanding of the people of Omelas. Le Guin utilizes logos through the narrator’s second person point of view which incites the audience to draw their own conclusions about the city of Omelas and question their own justifications of the child’s existence. The concept of the happiness of many relying on the necessary suffering of one forces the reader to question their own morals and their justifications for the child’s physical and mental condition. Through ethos, logos, and pathos, Le Guin presents the contrast and divide between the citizens of Omelas and the child in the cellar in order to challenge the reader’s capacity for moral self-conception.

I feel like the book Night lets off a very sad a depressing mood. The setting of this book is a various amount of concentration camps that Elie and his dad go to. The main central idea of Night is to explain the experiences in the Holocaust. I personally think that this book is a good book for young adults and not kids because it uses some language and it’s very descriptive.

Ursula Le Guin composes a feminist way of building a society where each individual is equally as suited and adept as the next. Each character acquires the same capability, which results in an equal portrayal of male and female genders. Le Guin’s primary focus in The Left Hand of Darkness is to represent genderless characters in order for her audience to scrutinize the roles that each gender has unfortunately been given. Le Guin’s compelling reconstruction of

The book I’m reading is Deep, Dark, and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn. The book is about a girl who goes to a lake with her aunt. The girl’s name is Ali and she is hanging out with her Aunt Dulcie and cousin Emma. The story starts out when Ali goes to read her mom’s book. She opens a page and a picture falls out. The picture is her mom, aunt, and another girl. On the back of the photo her grandmother wrote their names but the other girl's name was torn off. The first letter of her name was T. It was a mystery to Ali, so she went downstairs to ask her mom who T was, but she had no clue. A few hours later her aunt showed up and asked her if she wanted to go to Maine to go to the lake. While Dulcie was

“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” This quote by Joan Didion represents her unique writing style, which includes immense detail and intriguing sentence structure, causing her to eventually captivate an audience stretching all across the world. Born in 1934, Didion spent her childhood living in Sacramento, California. As a young adult, she attended Berkeley, where she entered a writing competition that ultimately earned her a prestigious job at Vogue. Didion decided to move to the bustling city of New York, where she then landed a job with Time Magazine. She married a fellow author by the name of John Gregory Dunne, and the pair adopted a daughter

When children think of darkness they think of lack of light which causes them to become scared. As we grow older, we begin to not only realize the lack of light, but the objects inside the dark which can be more frightening. We start understanding how darkness makes us feel. Darkness makes one think of unusual scenarios that are not real, but seems so real at that moment. Once we start believing in those scenarios, they start to overcome us and we no longer stay ourselves. There are multiple definitions of darkness and they all go with these two authentic stories, Heart of Darkness and The Dead. In the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, darkness is defined as: partial or total absence of light, wickedness or evil, unhappiness, secrecy and lack of spiritual or intellectual enlighten. Comparing, Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad and The Dead written by James Joyce, each author brings out darkness and the living dead into the main character and shows how much it changes them for the worse and/or for the better.

Gender and Sexuality Social Issues Within “Obsolete” Throughout the past century, there has constantly been conflicts of gender and sexuality among America’s society. More recently than not, women have found to break barriers and take steps towards the equality of all sexes. However, there are still many environments in which inequality takes place, traditional gender stereotypes are held, or gender exploitation. As art imitates life, author Chuck Palahniuk explored these influences in his own writings.

“In a Dark time” by Theodore Roethke gives a retrospect into the inner turmoil’s of finding oneself through a haze of doubts in till reaching a moment of clarity. Each section of the poem describes a different emotion, or inner thought that spirals from fear of death, to emotions of desire. The use of imagery between nature and uncertainties of the narrator give a glimpse into Roethke’s own mind during the time he wrote this poem. Without hundreds of pages Roethke created a poem that connects readers to their own self-doubts and struggles of finding ones way again.

J.K. Rowling once said, “There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.” This is a quote from a very famous author saying how people who don’t read should start reading because in your mind you can picture how the story goes and it will teach you something. People do need to start reading more often because sometimes the books you will read if their fiction or nonfiction it can help you in school. Some people don’t understand how reading is important. There are several relationships that caused J.K. Rowling’s adverse situation as well as helped. One relationship that caused Rowling’s adversity was with her family. According to the website “Beyond Fear, Beyond Death,” when J.K. Rowling was born July 31, 1965, her parents Peter and Anne Volant Rowling were expecting a boy. When they found out they got a girl instead they were not happy about it. Then two years later her parents had another daughter and they named her Dianne but they cared more for her then Joanne, and that made her feel that no one cared about her. She felt sad, and the quote she said. “I went up to my room and wept” (Wirawan n.pag). Because of how her life was going, she had suicidal feelings and nothing got after years went on. Another relationship was with her ex husband Jorge Arantes. She stopped writing Harry Potter for awhile, moved to Portugal and worked as an English teacher, and then she married Jorge in 1992. They had a daughter together the same year. After one year of