Night Blackout

Dreams
swallowed up
 in the silence
 of
a creature
 with eyes dead white as sightless as
 spiders
 in a dull glass bell.

Mood vs tone

McCarthy's tone in the passage is apathetic whereas the mood of the text is haunting. McCarthy's description, while vivid ,lacks emotion. McCarthy's describes the two as " pilgrims in a fable swallowed up and lost among the inward parts of some granitic beast"(1). He is blunt and detached from these individual's situation. Conversely, the mood of the text is almost the opposite as the description inspires fear and tension. The creature "with eyes dead white and sightless as the eggs of spiders" swings its head low over the water as if it to take the scent of what it could not see"(1) The creature physical description is terrifying and seems to be aware of the intruders who have entered his space.

Text-to-Text connections

I think a big connection between night and Persepolis is lose of faith. Elie loses faith in God because the concentration camps was so bad and he believes God didn't help him get out. In Persepolis She thinks she is the last prophet but when people make fun of her she loses faith.

Persepolis blog post number #1

Faith ,trust, and hope

As a young girl she believes she is a prophet and that God has chosen her. She has lots of faith. As people began to laugh at her she's starts to think that maybe she isn't the last prophet. When people ask her what she wants to be when she grows up she responses normally by saying she will be a prophet but after she loses faith she says that she will be a doctor.

Black boy poem

Letting go,
  from having no money
Letting go,
  from moving each month
Letting go,
   from being forced into religion
Letting go,
   from working jobs as tough as nails
Letting go,
   from feeding off the scraps of what's left
Letting go,
   from stealing to survive
Letting go,
   to being a nameless black boy
Letting go,
   from the discrimination of the south
Letting go,
   to set free up north

Compare and Contrast

In the two Poems "Between the world and Me" and "The South" They compare lynching to the south and how terrible it was for the black community. Hughes writes "Scratching in the dead fire's ashes for a Negro's bones"  while Wright wrights "And the down and quills  of the white feathers sank into my raw flesh,I moaned in my agony. In The south it talks more about the culture of the south and how Hughes liked the south but it didn't like him back, so he has to move north. Also he uses personification by giving the south human characteristics. Between the World and Me talk all about the lynching. Lynching was so awful for the black community because and any moment it could be them being killed instead of them watching which makes it so frighting for them.