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…himself. "Literature is where...I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart? What Rushdie is saying with this quote is that in fictional literature, he doesn't want to find true things that happen in the real…

…the black flower of civilized society, a prison”(Hawthorne, 1331). Hawthorne shows the reader that the prison is a very unorthodox place and full of darkness. This scene shows the sin in hester’s heart, dark and ugly. There is a rosebush and some weeds…

…, his heart pounding very fast. He thought about running, but he couldn't move. It was dark and they did not see him. After awhile, he started to move back again. He tried not to make a sound while moving back. But he bumped into another rock, which made…

…. And so when Ralph weeps for         the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and         the death of his true wise friend, Piggy, he weeps for all         the human race.' (Cox 164)         Such a tragic view…

…and family and has fangs, but he goes bad, he breaks up with you, and you know you have to let go, and you 'kill' him, metaphorically speaking, he is no longer a part of your life, but most likely remains in your heart. Also, Most of us view school to be living…

…of living in a dark den and made his home out of leaves, moss, sticks, brushwood and tufts of bushes. When he grew hungry he wandered into the field and was approached by a wolf, who chased him back to his house. Since it was made of easily destructed materials…

…at the arrival of an innocent babe, while Infant Sorrow is a poem of the despair and rejection at the birth of an unwanted child. The former poem leaves one with the feeling of warmth and innocence; the latter only offers a bleak and dark existence that shall last…

…. 146) Sadly enough, there wasn’t anything to protect the young girl from abuse, not her family, not her fellow peers, and certainly not the law. Harriet Jacob’s also tells of a certain instance when she saw two children, one fair and one dark, playing…

…, dark fire erupting from the heart of the white silo, trembling with an energy deeper than any anchorage earth could offer. The cockatoos, like the family's guilt and sadness, come in waves, there are the good times, and then the times when the silo…

…In our society, darkness tends to be the primary characteristic of evil. A black cat, a "dark and stormy night," and a dark alley, for instance, are all modern day symbols of wickedness and evil. Authors many times will use these and other symbols…