The Darkest Shadow

To most, when asked to define what Gothic is, they will state that it is similar to any other story, just with more “darkness.” This is because Gothic stories all have a classic story line. First, there is the main character’s back story, if any is then told. Next, there are events that lead up to a horrible incident that is the climax of the story. Lastly, the character finds some way to fix the situation or free him- or herself from it. They might go insane, commit suicide, run away, or watch other characters perish. However, readers would be greatly mistaken if they thought that this was all that there is to a Gothic story; there is much more to the Gothic than meets the

During the Holocaust, Jewish people were forced into concentration camps. They were given little to none of the things necessary to survive, and were forced to work until they died from exhaustion and malnutrition. They were treated like animals; dehumanized by the Nazis. In Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel, Elie shares his story of the agony, grief, and torment he experienced during the Holocaust. The one thing that kept him going during this horrific event was his father. He depended on him and it's clear if he didn’t have his father's presences he wouldn't have survived.

Even though Mr. Malter knew Reuven would want to know about Danny. He kept this unspoken promise to Danny.

Finally he gave me a nod. “Good luck,” an odd few words to say farewell but it was better than nothing.

Moon Shadow was a small boy that lived in China with his grandmother and mother. He had not seen his dad before because when Moon Shadow was little his father left to the Land of the Golden Mountain to make money. His mom would sometimes show him pictures of his dad or tell him stories about the kites that he made. Moon Shadows grandfather was the first to go to the Golden Mountain with the white demons. They called white people white demons because of the stories that they have heard of them. When his grandfather got their he was lynched by the white demons or hung. One day when Moon Shadow was in his house his uncle hand clap had came from the Golden Mountain and with a note. Hand Clap gave the note to Moon Shadow, when he read the note he said it

One common conflation I have been seeing a lot of in the community lately is the conflation of the Grimoire with books such as Magical Journals and the Book of Shadows. Most people don’t seem to know that there is a vast difference between these types of books, and I want to illustrate those differences in this article. The Book of Shadows is specifically a Wiccan and Neo-Wiccan concept. The name itself is a misnomer which references Wicca and Neo-Wicca’s penchant for revisionist history on the mythical subject of the Burning Times, and alludes to a period when Witches supposedly had to keep their practices a secret or risk being burnt at the stake.

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

Ursula K Le Guin once stated that “I am a man. Now you may think I’ve made some kind of silly mistake about gender, or maybe that I’m trying to fool you, because my first name ends in a, and I own three bras, and I’ve been pregnant five times, and other things like that that you might have noticed, little details” (The Wave In the Mind pg 3) discloses that no matter what “role” is placed on a gender, it is paramount to preserve equality and acceptance. In most cases, the male gender is considered to be the more dominant and superior sex when compared to the female gender, which is speculated to be a less powerful and more sensitive sex. Le Guin uses gender to immensely contribute to this entire novel as she endeavors to display to readers that a world could indeed thrive when free from gender roles. In the science- fiction novel, The Left Hand of Darkness, Le Guin brilliantly represents gender equality and a genderless society that exists on planet Gethen.

At the Dark End of the Street is the first book to connect black women’s long struggle against rape and other sexual violence to the very roots of the modern civil rights movement. By refusing to cower in shame and remain silent because they had been raped, black women struck a powerful blow to southern apartheid. According to McGuire, “Between 1940 and 1975, sexual violence and interracial rape became one crucial battleground upon which African Americans sought to destroy white supremacy and gain personal and political autonomy.” Even though the white community responded with a virulent campaign of sexual terror, slander against black women and fervent calls against miscegenation, black women’s protests and resistance helped knock the doctrine

The world was created with the intent that every person might inhabit it and live freely and for the most part most of the people do just that; live freely with little to no restrictions. Yet, there is a small percentage that is oppressed, not openly, not publicly but in the shadows. In this country everyone comes from a line of immigrants. Every settler, every missionary, every pilgrim came to the New World as an immigrant, one who comes to live permanently in a foreign country due to oppression, religious freedom, or to pursue a better life. Yet a pressing issue that has taken a high level of importance in the political and social spectrums is the issue of immigration, how to prevent future immigrants from entering America

The characteristics of the poetic mode that are presented in the documentary Lessons of Darkness directed by Werner Herzog are: poetic fragmentation, non-specific characters, and knowledge comes from feeling. Throughout the whole film there are long takes of landscapes, bodies of water, burning fires, and firefighters putting out fires. All the shots are just a series of fragments used to represent the Gulf War aftermath. The fragments are “breaking up space and time into multiple perspectives, denying coherence…” (Nichols 165), which result in ambiguity.

The Dark Child by Camara Laye, is an autobiography about a young boy and his childhood in Kouroussa, a village in Guinea, Africa. He takes us way back to his youth and describes growing up and dealing with the challenges that come with it. The story begins with him discovering a black snake and trying to kill it. But when his mother told him not to kill it because the snake was seen as good luck, he became more suspicious of the snake. He asks his father who clarifies the superstition surrounding the black snake. His father who is well known around the village as one of the best blacksmiths was chosen by the black snake. Before the book ends, the dark child has a conversation with his father about his future plans. This ignities a long inner

One of the most distinguishable characteristic of German expressionist films is its very distinguishable mise-en-scene. In a lot of German expressionist films the mise-en-scene tends to be very dark and has more of a gothic like look to it. Harsh Shadows are used a lot in German expressionist films to help portray and explain things. In Nosferatu Muranu is able to do this by using shadows and silhouettes to “create the aura of a creature belonging to another world and convey a paranoid sense of evil omnipresence” (Blakeney). One example of this from the film is then we see

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Stafford furtively conceals the profound meaning of his poem behind a story of the narrator, who stops alongside the road to care for a deer. The genius behind poem is better understood when the superficial meaning is expressed deeply.