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With the light coming in the sky, a light comes into Pi and he truly believes his family will be alive and well. But as soon “as evening approached, [his] anxiety grew” and he starts to lose his comfort (118). Night has a feeling of distress and makes Pi lose hope that he will see his family. Ships will not be able to see him, so the chance of him being rescued becomes smaller and smaller every time the sun sets. This causes an upset feeling in Pi, a feeling he normally does not experience, and night becomes a dreadful time for him. Not only does it become a dreadful time, but it also becomes a terrifying time. At this time he abodes on a boat with dangerous creatures that could attack at any minute and it scares Pi to death. During the darkest hours of the night “everything disappeared, the sea, the lifeboat, [his] own body” (118). At night he does not even have the comfort of sight, everything becomes the unknown and that causes a displeasing feeling in Pi. While the unknown surrounds Pi, he has no comfort. He has no comfort due to the fact that nothing provides a sense of familiarity to him anymore, he cannot see what lies ahead. Pi does not know what could happen at nighttime and it scares him and it horrifies

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 Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, the imagery of light and dark is used to deepen the themes of the normal. Sometimes darkness or "light lifting" can mean more than one thing. In this essay I would explore this subject.

She takes advantage of her passion for the darkness as a way of persuading her side of the argument, placing greater favor upon the peacefulness in darkness versus chaos in the light. Also her description of her emotions when she is surrounded by darkness suggests that our busy lives in the light have taken relaxation away from our lives; darkness helps us fall back into simpler times and serenity.

The narrator of the poem begins with stating that “some kind of shadow was behind her/ she ran towards nowhere/ dark, empty, cold, stuck.” The poem depicts the

In this quote, the narrator is showing that with the light comes knowledge of the world for the child. The light is bleak and not always encouraging. When the child exposes himself to the world he loses part of his innocence and childhood. Therefore, the child may wish to remain in the darkness. The darkness in this specific excerpt is personified as a slow and gentle relief. The narrator attempts to convey the concept that darkness, which is reality, means nothing without light to illuminate it because the light makes one aware of the dark, and therefore comprehend reality.

This sentence givers light to why he named the book The Luminous Darkness because from any darkness in someone’s life, God still casts His light everywhere. It matters where we get our light from because having the wrong light source can lead to bad things, but with the right light we can create ourselves to be a better human, one who sees how God created us to be.

Darkness is a recurring image in literature that evokes a universal unknown, yet is often entrenched in many meanings. A master poet, Emily Dickinson employs darkness as a metaphor many times throughout her poetry. In “We grow accustomed to the dark” (#428) she talks of the “newness” that awaits when we “fit our Vision to the Dark.” As enigmatic and shrouded in mystery as the dark she explores, Dickinson's poetry seems our only door to understanding the recluse. As she wrote to her friend T.W. Higginson on April 15, 1862, “the Mind is so near itself – it cannot see, distinctly”(Letters 253). In this musing, she acquiesces to a notion that man remains locked in an internal struggle with himself. This inner

the light is his way of saying he knows God is with him. In his reference of fate, he says

In Invisible Man, the narrator experiences the ongoing battle of racial oppression in the North and South. The flashlight represents the spark the narrator has in order to persevere through the oppression of the 1940s and 1950s. The flashlight is held by a hand, but there is not a face to put with the hand, similar to Jeff Wall’s photo, After Invisible Man, The Prologue, in which there is no face to put with the man’s back. The flashlight also lights up the focal point of the photo, the book. Books usually allow people to open up their minds and become more worldly.

In the solitude of pitch-black infinite space, “men forgot their passions”-all values were lost, hopes and goals were put on hold, and only darkness existed. A world living in darkness was forced to displace its

The lights are the stars, and they’re so far away that we don’t know if their rays have hit the earth. They’re so far, yet we can see them clearly. There are still many shadows and darkness despite the light. The earth is the only known place where people live and where people suffer. The shadows of the night, or spirits of the dead, talk to Mr. Lorry- his fears and doubts. The darkness has him thinking unwanted thoughts. The man, Dr. Manette, was buried alive- not physically, but mentally. He was buried in his own thoughts and within himself while he was locked up. Nobody knew he existed. He was tortured by the same darkness as Mr. Lorry. His powers, his skills and personalities are lost because of this, and Lorry wonders whether Manette can

The darkness is visible not because there is no light, but because there is so little light. It is like the darkness of night, where there is just enough light to see the darkness in contrast. The only purpose of the light is for them to see how miserable the place was. They could not rest, because of how bad the place was, so it was like torture. “A fiery deluge”, there was fire everywhere like there is water

The poet wants “them” to “walk inside the poem’s room”. The poem is dark because we do not understand it. We have to “walk inside” to grasp a better understanding of the poem. By saying that we have to “feel the walls for a light switch”, he means that we have to read the poem a few times, find quotes that give the poem a deeper meaning and look for the poem’s true meaning. We may sometimes feel like we are blindly in search for answers like how we cannot see a light switch in a completely dark

The usage of the motif of light in the book is vast enough to be spoken about on its own in the first paragraph, which will prove the thesis by giving an example of how with the motif of light can relate to the characters emotions shown greatly. The significance of this point is to give a clear example of what some of the motifs of light are in the book. The quote is said by Mikage. At this point of time in the book, Yuichi had just come to visit her after her grandmother had passed away. “When was it I realized that, on this dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own”(pg.21) The literary device being used in the first quote is imagery due to the fact that the author is creating an image in the reader 's head like when she said “dark and solitary path we all walk”. This literary device enhances the main idea by giving the reader a physical description of what is going on.