Summary Of Vastness Of The Dark By Alistair Macleod

As the book begins, the author has a curiosity and was consumed with the need of learning about his mother and her past. James observed that all the mothers of his friends had parents who looked similar (skin tone) and became curious because his mother had a different skin color than him. When he asked Ruth all of his questions, she consistently refused to give any answers. This made James’s need to know increase.

James was miserable and heartbroken. James started failing his classes, turned to drugs, and crimes. “One day he was there, the next-a stroke, and he was gone.”(Chapter 2). James was not able to keep himself together because

The dark, mysterious and life changing setting the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel contributes to the protagonist’s hardships between a spiritual character (God) and a minor character (his father).

Throughout the work, O’Connor entices one to question others and to refrain from coming to regard such others through faulty stereotypical images that come from a place of superiority and ignorance. While the work does indeed illustrate an example that is quite hyperbolic in its representation, the truths in the representation; however, are not without importance. At last, society can take hints from O’Connor due to the fact that as individuals, it is habit to view matters from distance as Mrs. Hopewell does when she sees Manley from the mountains, when a closer inspection reveal all that had been hidden from

Religion can be very important in people’s lives, but for some, religion can cloud their vision of what is wrong and what is right. In the novel The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, the protagonist’s father, Joseph, abuses his religious power. Joseph Strorm forces his religion on others, he uses his religion to destroy anything that is different and controls his life to a dangerous point. Therefore, Joseph Strom’s religious theories are seriously flawed.

Although A Model of Christian Charity argues conformity leads to prosperity in a community, The Crucible and The Minister’s Black Veil urge people to avoid taking after society because strict enforcement of identical ideals results in ignorance and an inability to understand one another. The Minister’s Black Veil most effectively questions the significance of conformity because people in today’s world see their own society perfectly reflected in the social standards of town of Milford. The story starts off with, “spruced bachelors looked sidelong at pretty maidens, and fancied that the Sabbath sunshine made them prettier.” Hawthorne elaborates on how town of Milborn uses the Sabbath as a social event in order to also reveal the emphasis the town puts on materialistic and physical values. This parallels with today’s world because Americans outwardly say that what is on the inside matters while at the same time promoting models in order to define one’s worth. Since The Minister’s Black Veil closely resembles today’s world, readers understand at a deeper level the literary work’s overall meaning which holds that conformity hurts society’s ability to reason and adapt to new circumstances. If the reader realizes how dangerous conformity can be, then they will make a much needed effort to accept and actively learn to

“The novelist is concerned with the mystery of personality, and you cannot say much that is significant about this mystery unless the characters you create exist with the marks of a believable society about them“ (p.198). She mediates the message of God through her characters flaws and failures, because God created everything that a society is able to believe. He is universal. Finally, the communal presence about O’Conner is the robust community of the South. “The South—that is, the rural, Protestant, Bible Belt South—is a little beyond the pale of Catholic respect” (p.206). Although O’Conner is a Catholic in the Protestant South, she is able to communicate the divine message of God hidden throughout all of her stories. Her community readership is strongly supported by this large demographic of Southern Bible

A plethora of distinct imagery develops the story of how the malign actions of his father mold an impressionable son. Visual imagery used to describe the father such as “an enormous man”(1) with eyes of the “worst kind of jury”(5) forms an icon in which the reader rapidly dislikes within the first few lines. Identically, the visual imagery exercised in construing the father’s abusiveness, “when he slapped mother,” incites a hatred for the father and constructs sympathy for the narrator. Additionally, the subordinate narrator

Following his brief sense of freedom, Dimmesdale also feels that “the air was too fresh and chill to be long breathed” and he then “withdrew again within the limits of what their church defined as orthodox” (Hawthorne 102). The inner conflict within Dimmesdale as to what he truly believes in acts as a valuable example towards the muffling of one’s emotions, for Dimmesdale is indecisive as he ties himself to being a dedicated minister above even his own thinking. This see-saw of loyalty exposes that Dimmesdale also lives something akin to a double life, growing more and more withdrawn as the days go on without receiving either proper punishment for his affair or a clear sense of security that he truly belongs in the church. He has created an inimical attitude towards himself out of shame and confusion, deeply rooted in his mind and

Gary Webb was an investigative reporter from California. Webb is famous for his series called “Dark Alliance,” which was published in 1996 in the San Jose Mercury News where he worked. This series was highly controversial. In this series of articles, Webb suggested that the Central Intelligence Agency knew about and protected Nicaraguan cocaine traffickers and distributers, which allowed the outbreak of crack cocaine in the African-American community of Los Angeles in the 1980’s. “Dark Alliance” also suggested that law enforcement agencies neglected to prosecute known drug smuggler and distributors.

Un-afraid of The dark, Rosemary L. Bray’s gut wrenching novel about overcoming one’s own life struggles to become successful. Bray’s life at

In the dark there will always be light-Eric Catron. Bad situations normally call for not so good attitudes, but think, if you stay positive in a dastardly situation it could help not only yourself, but everyone around you. We recently read an excerpt from a book which contained the story of a young boy of the holocaust. In his story contains the sadness that the jewish people endured during time spent in camps designed to torture and frighten all of the jewish population, well the ones in the concentration camps. Though even in these dark hours he still tried to keep a positive attitude. That boy,which later grew to a man that helped survivors of the holocaust, helped keep himself calm, give others hope, and overall help improve the whole situation.

Jim Casy’s spiritual beliefs play an important role in shaping the novel, and he makes

According to State Farm, the average amount of collisions caused by deer is estimated at 1.23 million and about 200 fatalities a year. These accidents cost more than $4 billion in vehicle damage. In William Stafford’s “Traveling Through the Dark,” a driver encounters a dead pregnant doe in the middle of the road he was traveling. He had to act wisely so that he could prevent further accidents from happening since the doe was laying in the road. So, he decided to push the pregnant doe into the river below. Although the speaker’s actions might appear inhumane, the speaker made the ethical choice by pushing the dead pregnant doe into the river because he saves the fawn from suffering, the conditions were not suitable for saving a fawn, and he potentially saved the lives of many drivers.

The blood drop was slowly moving down, leaving red trail on the surface of shattered mirror.