Venturing Forth at Night

Suicide can sometimes feel like the only way to pacify the pain. It is as if something is eating away parts of you slowly and intently and the only way to relieve the constant pain, is to die. Tiffany Hunter and Pierre L’errant are two very different characters with both equally unique yet queer personalities. Although Pierre and Tiffany are not the best of friends, their contrasting characteristics somehow complement each other. They both have similarities in their plans of suicide as well as differences that help them make the correct decision on where they want their life to go in future. Although they both made different decisions at the end, they assisted each other to settle on the right choice. Drew Hayden Taylor develops a theme of despondency and isolation from peers and loved ones in the novel “The Night Wanderer.”

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

According to The Houghton Mifflin dictionary, night is defined as “the period between sunset and sunrise, especially, the hours of darkness” (p.887). Everything terrible happens at night. Every death, every tragedy, anything for that matter, happens at night. The significance that Elie Wiesel was trying to imply about night was a form of darkness. Darkness, as in danger. Darkness as in loneliness; loneliness as in sadness; sadness as in death. The symbol of death is expressed by the main character of the novel, Eliezer. Eliezer might not have died, but he experiences darkness, darkness of the soul, and loss of faith.

In the short story Connell writes that “‘sailors have a curious dread about the place”’ (Connell, 39). This shows foreshadowing because if the name did not already show it, even the sailors were scared of the island. It also stated that everything was “‘ like moist black velvet”’ (Connell, 40). Showing that whatever happened to the character, he would have never been able to make out anything since it was pitch dark outside, foretelling that when something happens to the character he will not be able to get back to the boat.

The book “Night” is a true story about Eliezer Wiesel’s life as a teenager during the Holocaust. It was written by Wiesel himself and was published by Prentice Halls in 1956, with a shorter version in 2000. Throughout “Night”, there are three powerful quotes to focus on and understand, in order to fully grasp the importance of the Holocaust.

As a child growing up in Sighet, Eliezer and his family looks much like an ordinary and close knit family today. That is until they were “taken away” where all control over life is striped away and as a result has his destiny chose by chance (Wiesel 22). During his time in Auschwitz, he has no choice of what he does. His only choice is to fight to survive. Eliezer simply does what he is told, when he is told, so he is not punished.

these people with their lives and the lives of their loved ones, the Jews were “persuaded”

The book Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography that depicts his lasting experience with the Holocaust. The book is written in Eliezer’s perspective and recounts his remarkable story. The memoir exhibits three prominent themes: father and son relationship, loss of faith, and inurement.

Human nature can be analyzed through feelings, characteristics, and behavior. Humans are capable of expressing different emotions such as hate, frustration, remorse, happiness and other emotions depending on the situation they are encountering.Various aspects of human nature can be observed through many forms of media. Often times humans are portrayed in a negative way, however there are certain cases where they are portrayed positively, like in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. Evil acts, discrimination towards others, and perseverance for survival, are all apart of human nature.

Journeys on boats are usually long and fraught with dangers that are overcome. Boats are also related to islands, since crew is isolated from the regular rules of society.

In his poem, "Traveling Through the Dark," William Stafford presents the reader with the difficulty of one man's choice. Immediately, the scene is set, with the driver, who is "traveling though the dark" (line 1) coming upon a recently killed deer. At first, his decision with what to do with the deer is easy; he knows he must push it off the edge for the safety of other motorists, but then, a closer examination of the deer reveals to the man new circumstances. His decision is now perplexing, and his course of action is unclear. Through his use of metaphor, symbolism, and personification, Stafford alludes to the difficult decisions that occur along the road of life, and the

If You Suddenly Come for Me relates to Night because it explains how some of the Jews felt when going to the concentration camps. It explains how they aren’t afraid of the Nazis’ throwing them in a cage, that they will keep their heads held high. They’ll just face it straight on and take it like a man. The poem emits emotions that the characters in Night had also felt. The poem says, ‘And I shall not repent or rage’, and that relates to the book because the Jews didn’t want to anger the German Nazis and get even more punishment.

Lightships are manned seamarks anchored at a specific point of a river, generally a shallow one. Fixed into place by a mushroom-shaped anchor, these small ships (rarely above 50 tons) would initially use large lanterns affixed atop the main mast. Their main advantage is that they could be placed in areas where it was impossible for lighthouses to act as efficient seamarks. Their main disadvantage, especially the early ones, is that turbulent waters could slightly shift the anchor and thus the ship’s positioning (Talbot 1913, pp. 241–42). In the worst-case scenario, the chains could snap, leaving the ship in a dire position. However, introduced in the early 19th century were numerous lighting inventions (Clarke 2016, pp. 14, 42) as well as mooring technologies using iron, which could anchor a vessel 12 to 14 times the tonnage of the largest lightship (Clarke 2016, pp. 50–56), made them increasingly reliable over time.

His eyes, those ocean pools penetrate my own, hypnotising me, that’s all I see, just his eyes. I try to avert my gaze, to search for Alice, but I can't move, my body is cased in stone. His voice, smooth and enticing, commands me to move, and I obey. Where is he leading me? I can smell the ocean, feel the cool breeze on my skin. As I glide my hands across my body, the cool silk of the blue dress kisses my palms and fingertips. The coarse ground cuts into my naked feet. Where did my shoes go? Did I leave them back at the apartment? I don't remember leaving my apartment, or meeting, Angelo.

River stood interrupting Cinder’s thoughts he announced, “I do believe it’s time to show Cinder the underground clubs.” They all agreed and stood to don their coats.