Through the Darkness

Darkness descended, the fog drifted through the dark streets and a chilling wind whistles pass the sleeping homes; the street of old houses looked dull and unwelcoming, an eerie presence had settled in. The old woman walked leisurely to the top of the street, she held her cane firmly in her old dark and aged hand, she hit the ground twice. The hollow sound echoed around like a tremor. She then used it to take her weight. Her bulged eyes scanned the darkness as the fog crept in, it was then she saw

because of the darkness, appearing to resemble a walkway to a new dimension. I make my way to the beginning of the dock and begin my journey to the new world. Walking through the darkness to the other side I can feel the temperature changing and a smooth breeze beginning to whistle. I finally make my way to the seemingly new universe. I turn back to look for the quaint brown cabin, the shiny silver boats, and the trees that claustrophobically surround the whole setting. However, the darkness engulfs all

believe something was looking for you,” he tells me before crossing into the darkness and leaving me in silence. It is unbearable. Even in the house there is no noise. It is the silence that drives me crazy and unsettles me. For the life of me, I cannot bring myself to close my eyelids no matter how hard I try. I am not sure when the singing started again since I am not able to see any light coming from the sky through the distorted window. It is the sound of footsteps, that turns my attention away

The darkness is completely overpowering. I have been standing upright in this small case for a really long time, only being held up by others that have been pushed into me forcefully. I can feel that I am getting dryer, getting to the point where I will be unusable. “Psssst! He’s coming guys. I hope you make it back like I did. When I went out there, I almost didn’t make it back,” said a small Pentel eraser. “Calm down! I’m sure it isn’t that bad,” I replied. At that point all of a sudden, my

Dancing Through Darkness One cannot exercise the mind enough to prepare for the moment when tragedy occurs. Our emotions are very unpredictable in this way. What comes after the tragedy is referred to as the ‘grieving period’. The mind has to go through this in order to stretch itself from the unpredictable emotions, back into a form of acceptance of what was lost. In the tragedy striking play of “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” written by William Shakespeare, the author has the reader take a look at

A Beam of Light Through the Darkness The novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, tells the story of Wiesel as a Jewish teenager who studied the Torah and the Cabbala and the rocking of that faith by the events that we now know as the Holocaust. The narrative begins in 1944 in Wiesel’s hometown of Sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania. It tells the story of the Nazi occupation of Hungary and Elie and his family’s, as well as other Jews’, oppressive arrests by Germans and their nightmarish

skill to survive, just like how a survivor needs skills and abilities to survive life's circumstances. How does a survivor manage to persevere through the darkness of the cave? A survivor has the knowledge and determination to dive into the pit of chaos and find opportunity. With knowledge a survivor can find ways to an opportunity even with the darkness of the chaos that surrounds them. A variety of knowledge makes one a reliable and necessary resource for others; a person with

left to themselves to interpret literature. This can become challenging with more difficult texts, such as Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness. Fortunately, literary audiences are not abandoned to flounder in pieces such as this; active readers may look through many different lenses to see possible meanings in a work. For example, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness may be deciphered with a post-colonial, feminist, or archetypal mindset, or analyzed with Freudian psycho-analytic theory. The latter two

My research paper is entitled, Analyzing Heart of Darkness through a Feminist Lens. Through this paper, I will investigate and examine Heart of Darkness by means of Feminist Criticism and literary theory. I aspire to thoroughly analyze the entire narrative, in order to pull out and pinpoint various aspects and examples linked to feminist theory. I want to investigate and spotlight specific occurrences, in the novel, where characteristics of Feminist Criticism can be found or applied. I specifically

Revelation through Experience in Heart of Darkness, Going After Cacciato, and The Things They Carried Foreign lands seemingly possessed by evil spirits as well as evil men, ammunition stockpiles, expendable extremities and splintered, non-expendable limbs carpeting the smoking husks of burnt-out villages, the intoxicating colors of burning napalm, and courage mixed with cowardice in the face of extreme peril. These are just a few examples of the spell-binding images presented in