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“Set In Darkness” by Ian Rankin is a novel with a dramatic and socking ending. Rankin creates this effect by portraying the protagonist, John Rebus as willing to do anything in order to arrest the criminals in the story. During Rebus’s investigation into a body found in a fireplace in Queensberry House and also the […]
Templum, an abandoned school which had been turned into a refuge for ‘wastelanders’. Caravan traders had set up shops and a doctor used the old sick room as his clinic. I remembered when I first saw it, I thought : ‘Wow, what an amazing place, ; this really is the epitome of humanity – when […]
The Enola Gay’s wings gleamed in the sun as it skimmed over the clouds on its way to the Far East. Its mission was one of mass destruction and the pilot, Simon Campbell had his own reservations about it but orders were orders. America had been fighting with Japan for close on four years now. […]
This assignment will be comparing “The Withered Arm”, a pre twentieth century story set in 1819 – 1825 but written in 1888 with “The Darkness Out There”, a Penelope Lively short story, written in the middle of Margaret Thatcher’s reign as the prime minister of Great Britain in 1986.”The Withered Arm” is set in the […]
“The Darkness out There”, by Penelope Lively is a short story about Sandra, a young girl, growing up. At first she is young and innocent, and thinks the world is separated into categories where people’s appearances determine what kind of people they are. As the story progresses, we see the transition from her innocence to […]
H. G. Wells was a writer with several identities. Most of Wells’ short stories were written about the marvels of science, but the genre of this one, is based on a gothic mystery. A gothic story is a romantic fiction with its setting usually in a ruined gothic castle or abbey. It emphasised mystery and […]
In âDarkness at Noonâ . Harold Krents vividly describes some of the mundane biass disabled citizens must confront. Presented in an frequently humourous manner. the writer opens the readerâs eyes to the barbarous sarcasms of societyâs pre-conceived and inaccurate judgements. and their long stretch effects on his life. Krents begins his essay by indicating out […]
Light and darkness play vital roles in both James Joyceâs âArabyâ and James Baldwinâs âSonnyâs Bluesâ. However, if the light and darkness in âArabyâ is religious in nature, with nuances of romance, âSonnyâs Bluesâ explores light and darkness in terms of a struggle that may ultimately destroy or revive one personâs life. Light and darkness […]
Our Vanishing Night Most city skies have become virtually empty of stars. By Verlyn Klinkenborg If humans were truly at home under the light of the moon and stars, we would go in darkness happily, the midnight world as visible to us as it is to the vast number of nocturnal species on this planet. […]
Mothers smile is a mother who loves to laugh and laugh when she looks very nice. That smile like a ray of sunshine in the winter, giving warmth; as a beacon of darkness, giving hope; such as frustrated, take the hit in the shoulder that his hands, giving power. Smile with her mother encouraged me […]
The two stories have completely different ways of achieving the same effect of surprising the reader. They both build up suspense and show tension using different methods. Although these methods are different the stories have some similarities, the main one being that the both involve horrific deaths and tragedies. The stories were written in different […]
The stories are set in slightly different eras – ‘the signalman’ is set in the Victorian era, written by Charles Dickens, whilst ‘the Darkness out there’ is set a more recent 20th century, and written by Penelope Lively. Although both stories are set in different times, both of the script writers build up tension using […]
In this essay I will compare two stories – The Ostler, written in the 19th century by a man called Wilkie Coliins, and The Darkness Out There, by Penelope Lively, written in the 20th century. They are both horror stories, a genre which has been popular throughout the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. This is […]
Summer reading Night 1). Crimes are committed in many situations. In some of those situations one is not always able to assist the target and extinguish the aggressor. Throughout the novel Night Lie witnesses his father being beaten multiple times by gypsy Kapok and AS guards. It is his silence that reflects both his understanding […]
