Montreal By Night Analysis

A book “The Road Past Altamont” by Gabrielle Roy was first published in French in the year 1966 (Dillman, 115). The subject of the book penetrates to the heart of a Child’s in-depth world, forming a subtle, yet considerable linkage of impressions, feelings, and relationships. The nous style of the writer Roy, whose literature imitates her infantile on the Canadian steppe, has often been compared with others. The book entails the four significant stories which are related to the young girl named Christine, from the period for her innocence to maturity. According to the understanding of this book, the purpose of this piece of literature is to make others understand the importance and power of the development of the relationship between a mother and a daughter. Moreover, in her writing, Gabrielle Roy allowed “nothing peripheral or false to stand,” according to many. The four allied stories divulge reflective moments during her early years in the massiveness of Manitoba. However, all the mentioned characters and events express writer’s obsession with childhood till the old age, the passage of the time as well as the mystery of change, and the artist’s relation to the world.

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.

Everyone can relate to the most common universal truths. The universal truths everyone can relate to are family problems, dealing with a teenager, alcoholism, and unemployment. These universal truths can have really bad effects on people such as isolating oneself from family or not wanting to do anything with a specific person in the family. Universal truths can also have good effects such as being in an abusive relationship and eventually getting out of it and starting fresh. David Adams Richards portrays these universal truths in his novel, Nights Below Station Street, through the use of simple language, use of flashbacks for each character and his personal connection to the novel and its character, Joe.

Martha Graham’s production of Night Journey is a unique and symbolic contemporary dance work. Graham bases many of her dance pieces on Greek myths and this is seen in her work Night Journey. Graham has manipulated elements of contemporary dance to communicate the emotion of the main character, Jocasta. Graham’s previous work focuses on depicting both the power and struggle of female idols in history. Graham has choreographed Night Journey to explore the perspective of Queen Jocasta, the main protagonist in the piece rather than the story of Oedipus. (Mueller, 2007) Graham has skilfully choreographed significant symbols and motifs to convey Jocasta’s emotions of grief, pain confusion and love through the manipulation of motifs and

“It’s Quiet Uptown” by The Cast Of Hamilton addresses the topic of grief and forgiveness. This song shows how the Hamiltons grieve their son, Philip, who just passed away due to a duel, and try to out their lives back together. By saying in lines 3-4 “You hold your child as tight as you can / And push away the unimaginable” Angelica introduces the theme. No parents tries to think of the possibility that they will outlive their child. When Hamilton and Eliza do outlive their son, they try to do the unimaginable and learn to live with it. Hamilton says in lines 9-12 “I spend hours in the garden / I walk alone to the store / And it’s quiet uptown / I never liked the quiet before”. Hamilton has never been the one to choose peace and quiet over

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.

After reading, Breaking Night by Liz Murray, it left me in all, in a swing of emotions but thrilled in the end. To listen to Liz struggle and pain that she endured as a child and being homeless during her teenage years made me look a life in a whole different way and made me appreciate my life so much more. I could never imagine going through the obstacles Liz was thrown with, such as, drug addictive parents with AIDS, the pressure of taking care of everyone but herself, juggling school and more. It made me realize that my life isn’t so bad, that there are people going through worse situations than I am and to appreciate the little things that I do have.

The Holocaust was a time of devastation and corruption. It was also a time of cruelty and inhumanity. The Holocaust occurred over the course of twelve years during World War II. Although nearly six million Jews were killed, some survived and lived to tell their stories. The works of Kitty-Hart Moxon (Documentary: A Day In Auschwitz), and Elie Wiesel (excerpt Night) all portray the hardships and struggles for survival during the Holocaust; their stories exemplify powerful depictions of the Holocaust concentration camp experience. The documentary was more powerful and effective toward the audience.

The poem, "The Night House" by Billy Collins, is very symbolic and meaningful, and most people can relate to because everyone has something they are not content with in life. Collins is a great, straightforward writer that people can depict with in his poems because he is practical and uses simple things or everyday experiences in an easy way. This poem in particular is very symbolic and effortless to analyze because it is the everyday life--- going to work, coming home, and then going to sleep--- the cycle then repeats over and over. He talks about "the body works" at the beginning (which sets the tone for the rest of the poem), which symbolizes that our hearts and minds are not always into what we are doing. He talks and illustrates figurative parts of the body: the heart, mind, conscience, and soul. When he talks about the woman sleeping, all these figurative body parts are restless and come out at night to do what they really want to do.

Paris as the City of Light, or the “modern” Paris, emerged in the mid 19th century as the demolition of “Old Paris” by Prefect Haussmann paved the way for the urban renewal program set out by the Emperor Napoleon III. New streets, sewers, and parks, and new town halls, hospitals, and schools were all created at this time. Not all were admired though. In fact, some Parisians grew angry that the historic core of Paris was lost in these bold projects. Lights throughout Paris evolved over the 19th century as well. Candle-lit lanterns that once lit the city became oil-burning lamps. It wasn’t until the year 1900 that Paris was illuminated by electric lighting, and formally became known as “Ville Lumière.” Main monumental spaces such as the Palais de l’Électricité, the Eiffel Tower, and even the new central wide boulevards were illuminated with these lights. Paris displayed the pleasures of the city to visitors who came to experience it, however, it also divided Parisians on the basis that the city’s traditions and memories were destroyed. Despite being called the most cosmopolitan city in the world by Baedeker, its history left out the dark side of it all. Paris was desolated of its historic memories and its traditional morals. However, renovations did bring sunlight and air into the historically beloved unhealthy, cramped streets. Ultimately, this image of Paris is all about its visually appealing aesthetics and does not mention what a true Parisian, in the center-periphery or banlieues, for example, would vision.

In The Stranger by Albert Camus, the main character, Meursault, is an absurdist who lives in the moment and refuses to be distracted by societal norms. He views the world as random and is indifferent to it. But to many French people living in Algeria, religion, social order and character are intertwined and are imperative to human life. Camus uses the crucifix and the courtroom to convey the idea that religion is man’s desperate attempt to create meaning in life where there is none.

When looking at the modernization of Paris in the 1850’s, the ideas of Baron Haussmann are glorified as a great feat for the city. Haussman, the one who improved the landscaping, street designs, and utilities systems of Paris. Haussmann, the one who brought new forms of leisure with the help of the wealthy leisure class. But is Haussmanization the true image of the “new” city of Paris? And what were the true costs of creating this form of an “ideal city”? What of the “city of misery”?

As a result of a booming development of the nineteenth century city, “progressive” architects of the time started to deliberate and conceive opinions to create long term solutions. Known for his radical cultural manifestos, Le Corbusier is one of the architects that epitomizes the change in ideal of the Machine Age. He introduced ideas of living in completely analogous, planned, designed, and then built, cities. Le Corbusier 's proposition for the City of Tomorrow had in its roots the intention of creating a series of fundamental principles that would become the skeleton of any modern city plan. However, considerations that were not applied during that period of time, are the cause of its unsuccessful development.

Paris today is known as a center of arts and rich culture both acclaimed and original. Famous moments pop up through the history of France’s art, such as the impressionistic artworks by Monet, the École des Beaux-Arts teachings of classicism, and the iconic Eiffel Tower by Stephen Sauvestre. Paris augments itself with numerous museums to catalog countless masterpieces and sculptures throughout France’s enduring, yet sometimes gritty, history. As a whole, Paris comprises of a mixture between historic architectural themes like rusticated brick clad, mansard roofs, striated columns, and a modern day architectural themes like engineered metalwork, and external program support machinery. The notion of classic French architecture, juxtaposed

In Brian Moore’s The Luck of Ginger Coffey, the city of Montreal is depicted as being in a kind of stasis, its landscape and inhabitants repeatedly described as frozen and stagnant: “Four forty-five. Office workers, waiting release as the minute hand moved slowly towards the hour, looked at the darkness beyond their windows and saw edges of frosting begin to mist the panes” (Moore 117). Despite this passage’s emphasis on stillness, however, it nevertheless features two references to time. Throughout Moore’s novel, attention is repeatedly paid to specific times or time frames, complicating the underlying image of Montreal as a city averse to progress. Considering the subjectiveness of the third-person limited narration, it seems best to examine