Mekone

Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. Under these stars and sky I used to hear stories, but now it seemed as if it was the sky that was telling us a story as its stars fell, violently colliding with each other. The moon hid behind clouds to avoid seeing what was happening” (Beah 80).

“Night. No one prayed, so that the night would pass quickly. The stars were only sparks of fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes” ( Wiesel 18).

In a photographer’s booth, we see the symbol of light where parents are able to look on themselves from the side and they have a possibility to understand that they are intolerable to each other. “The place is shadowed in the mauve light which is apparently necessary”. Unfortunately, they know it from the beginning but they don not want to accept it because it will disturb already chosen path. “…and finally, shocked by their indifference”. The only son, who is going to start an adult life, able to summarize the parents mistakes and to build his future in the light of love, hope and faith. “…into the cold light, I woke up”. No matter what and when we are always know where is the light but sometimes it is easier to wander in a gloom then to find strength to look at the sun.

“Half-awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla...Morning light slants over the mountain” (1).

Long before the star in the sky gave us warmth and the rock in the sky gave us it’s luminous presence, there were two people. The sun and the moon. Sun was a fierce warrior and proud to his merit. Moon was gentle, soft spoken and often vague with their words. These two polar beings lived in harmony with one another for centuries, that was until Moon felt the pang of hunger. Sun could sense disturbance in the air as Moon began to speak “I’m hungry”. Sun knew what was about to arise, these two words conjoined in sentence would be his undoing. Reluctant, knowing the outcome, he asked “What do you want to eat”. The three words in response would send a fluster of annoyance and agitation towards Sun, these three words would be “I don’t know”. Visible

“Someone had taught her where to look for the North Star, the star that stayed constant, not rising in the east and setting in the west as the other stars appeared to do; and told her that

In the solitude of pitch-black infinite space, “men forgot their passions”-all values were lost, hopes and goals were put on hold, and only darkness existed. A world living in darkness was forced to displace its

At night he would go out and look at the night across the water the shined at Daisy house. Then one day the light lost all it meaning.

On land, pillars of granite rose up angelically into the ether. The once grey sky was slowly being permeated with an onyx decor. Though we had started our journey with blue skies, it was becoming increasingly sincere that we would conclude it in storm.

In the beginning, a young Janie dreams to have a marriage like the bees and the blossoms, “She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight”(11). She hopes to find a man that complements and completes her. She wants to experiences the ups and downs in life.

The Ancient Greek philosopher Plato wrote a short story called “Allegory of the Den.” The short story is based on teachings by another philosopher named Socrates. Since the story is an allegory it can be read both on literal and figurative level. The story focuses on prisoners chained in a cave in the dark. Those prisoners and the overall story can be related to innumerable pieces of literature.

“His name is Pharaoh Jayaven, and he's from my planet. Planet Nomina. We were a kind and peaceful race. We got along with our surrounding planets. But one day, I was gazing up at the sky and notices something was different, the air was thick and heavy, full of dust. Come to find out. A dwarf star had exploded sending darkness towards my world. For two days straight my planet was engulfed in smoky darkness. Once the dust and fog was cleared, it had left behind some residue amongst some of the villagers. Thus creating the family of Darkness and chaos, in our native language Nayuh.”

“When I was a child, my grandmother told me that the sky speaks to those who look and listen to it. She said, ‘in the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy, and confusion.’ that night I wanted the sky to talk to me.” throughout my endearing reading of A Long Way Gone I found myself fascinated with the African culture. The way African writers talk of the all knowing sky and nature's wisdom makes my mind dance with curiosity and creates the ability to pertain an existential view of the world around me.

After she grabbed the clock, Aristarchus threw the potion straight at her. She had no idea what the potion was for or what it did, but she automatically knew it was bad. Before Olympias even had a chance to react Eurydice jumped in front of Olympias, the potion shattering all over her. Eurydice fell to the ground, crippling into a ball. Olympias, enraged with anger, shot an iron cage on top of Aristarchus, imprisoning him. Olympias wept as Eurydice at the loss of her bright, beautiful friend. An idea suddenly started to form in Olympias’s head as she looked from the bright nymph to the dark god. She would place Eurydice in the sky beside her to warm the people and give them light, and she would place Aristarchus in his prison in the sky to provide sleep and darkness to the people. They would be called the sun and the moon, and man would finally learn about

This story describes the continuous renewal and daily cycle of the sun. It goes on to explain that the sun god was birthed each morning by the sky goddess and matured throughout the day until he reached his peak age and descended into the Underworld. In other words, this tale explains that the sun rises, or is born, every morning, and moves through the sky until finally setting with the dark of the night behind it. The story proceeds to explain the sun gods journey through the Underworld, where he was accompanied by thousands of beings who served to defend the barque the god traveled on and the god himself from his enemies. By the middle of the night, the sun god would arrive into the deepest parts of the Underworld where Osiris was presents, then continue on to face his main enemy, Apep, the snake, before being reborn again (rising as the sun) and repeating this cycle. This particular story offers a personified explanation on the sun rising and setting by using a gods journey in darkness through the