The Importance Of The Darkness In The Los Angeles Times By Paul Bogard

How can day exist without night; how can night exist without darkness? In Paul Bogard’s, “Let There Be Dark”, Bogard elucidates on the absence of darkness in today’s world. With authenticity, Bogard analyzes the significant elements of darkness in both a rational and factual way. In “Let There Be Dark”, Bogard creates a refined and persuasive analysis using rhetorical appeals to endorse his ideology on preserving Earth’s natural darkness.

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.

In Holly Wren Spaulding’s essay, “In Defense of Darkness,” her main claim is that we have fallen away from darkness and immersed ourselves in a society of lightness. Furthermore, she claims this has lead humans to lose touch with basic human emotion as well as the sensual and spiritual experience true darkness has to offer. Spaulding makes this claim evident through exceptional use of personal testimony and copious appeals to value.

Elie Wiesel writes a powerful and moving novel titled “Night” detailing his journey throughout what we now know today as the Holocaust while also bringing in elements of symbolism and imagery to strengthen the novel and deliver a story that is not only incredible but impactful as well. Throughout the book Elie slowly begins to lose his faith, his father, and his dignity which is shown through the symbol of night. "We were given no food. We lived on snow; it took place of the bread. The days were like nights, and the nights left the dregs of their darkness in our souls"(Wiesel 94).” In this quote Elie states what the nights would bring to the Jews which is darkness. This reveals his feelings of being alone with no God and the dark of night that

A time of decency and aspiration soon appeared as a time of brutality and outrage. The 1960s were a period of social revolution and turmoil. Through changes in politics, equality and war, many Americans acted as a catalyst for change. John F. Kennedy took office as the first Catholic President of the United States who radiated a symbol of hope. While Martin Luther King Jr. preached notions of change during the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. The racial divide of blacks and whites were heightened in society. Protests appeared to demand equal rights for women and to end the war in Vietnam. In Rosemary L. Bray’s memoir, Unafraid of the Dark, Bray openly reflected on the life she had growing up in a low class family in Chicago. Bray describes the hardships

The following is a summary on the short essay The Dark Night of the Soul by Richard E Miller. This short essay is an essay that has been written with a main point always in mind, that reading and writing has very powerful influences people and their imagination but, the act of reading and writing is not being utilized as much in the modern world. Richard has created an essay that proves his point by taking five very different short stories and giving each a twist that helps the reader see the power of reading. As the reader is chronologically going through the essay he or she is given many possible meanings of the essay. The meaning and the

“We learned the earth is flat and that the sun revolves around it, which causes the day and night.” (page 22). “And in the darkness, in the secret hour, when we awoke in the night and there were no brothers around us…we thought...” (page 23). By writing in this manner, it is evident that the only time the main character is truly free to think is at night. Rand wants the readers to see the symbiotic relationship, the night serves as his protection while he makes progress. “Thus did it come to pass that each night, when the stars are high, we...run through the darkness...” (page 35). “We made it. We created it. Our head is reeling. We look upon the light which we had made.”(page 59). The creation of light out of the darkness sparks a transformation in the narrator. With these short and powerful sentences, it is evident that a different tone has been established, one infused with the first steps towards

In the beginning of the bible, the world was dark. Then God created light in order to make it brighter. However, when the God is not here to protect the light, Night overtook. It is a time of darkness. It is also a place where people cannot see and help each other. Because of the faith in God, the darkness, hopeless of Night, and the period of Night, Elle Wiesel’s famous short novel is called “Night”, which is very significant for Elle Wiesel as well as the Jews during World War II.

Bogard is very effective showing how wonderful darkness is by using emotions and facts, than giving the readers a rhetorical question to make them think. He has been very persuasive so far with his essay, but do make people care even more and worry about the future so they can act faster, he shows how this can actually negatively affect us. He uses information from the WHO and the AMA showing how they unanimously voted to support light pollution reduction efforts and glare reduction efforts. He worries readers that the body needs darkness to produce melatonin using darkness and our bodies need darkness to sleep. If we don’t sleep well due to lack of darkness, we can develop a sleeping disorder which often leads to diabetes or obesity. Bogard also acknowledges that there are organisms in this world which need darkness. He states that without darkness, the Earth’s ecology would collapse. He than alludes to the painting Starry Night and asks the reader how would Van Gogh have made that painting with artificial light. He asks what that might have inspired in our children and grandchildren. He implores the reader to think about that and if that's what they really want for

Due to the night's natural darkness loss, writer Paul Bogard argues that natural obscurity should be preserved, in his article "Let there be dark". The author uses anecdotes, evidence - such as organization's quotation and startling facts - and rethorical questions in order to deliver a convincing argument.

Bogard begins his article by recounting a personal story - a summer spent in a lake in Minnesota where he experienced “woods so dark [his] hands disappeared before [his] eyes.” In describing this brief anecdote, Bogard provokes the audience to question and recount a time when they were able to enjoy a world surrounded by natural darkness. By drawing in his readers with a personal encounter about night darkness, the author means to present natural darkness as a mysterious yet alluring forces of nature. With

Paul Bogard uses rhetoric devices, such as anecdotes and rhetorical questions, in order to connect with the readers and help them relate to his purpose. He starts his article by using an anecdote which is a story about his childhood in Minnesota lake, where he said, “I knew woods so dark that my hands disappeared before my eyes. I knew night skies in which meteors left smoky trails across sugary spreads of stars.” The anecdote here uses imagery and metaphors as discussed before, however, the analysing of this anecdote does not stop there. In this specific anecdote, the writer makes the readers question themselves if they remember a time where it was so dark, that they could not even see their own bodies. This anecdote’s purpose is to connect with readers on a personal level, in order for them to later understand the author’s purpose for this article, and later sympathise and agree with the author. Paul Bogard wants the readers to personally feel that they understand the “irreplaceable value of darkness,” as he says in his article. He also refers back to this anecdote in later parts of his article when he says “Even the northern lake where I was lucky to spend my summers has seen its darkness diminish.” This quote also conveys how the author wants people to sympathise with him and his

In the adaptation of "Let There Be Dark," Paul Bogard develops his argument to persuade the audience of how the natural darkness is significant to the world and how it is vital for it to be preserved. Through the use of logic, anecdotes, and thought-provoking questions, Bogard is able to build a convincing and strong argument to preserve the natural darkness. A rhetorical technique the author implements is logic and reason. The author claims that darkness is vital in the production of melatonin, which prevents cancers from developing.

Richard E. Miller essay “The Dark Night of the Soul” to be an interesting way to think about reading and writing in today’s world. Richard uses the violence in the world to question if our educational system is relevant to keeping us safe and whether the power literature can be used to change the tragic event that happen around us every day.

Traditionally, a lack of light gives readers a impression of death, while light is used to illuminate life and gives off a sense of happiness. However, in Eileen Chang’s fiction light and darkness are emphasized to elicit different feelings. For instance, light can be used to illuminate desolation or obstacles that characters are hesitant to face. Meanwhile darkness can serve as an ominous precursor for calamities that have not yet unfolded. Most importantly darkness and light serve as critical links to major themes in Eileen Chang's fiction.