This technique also helps set the tone as delightful. You see the darkness and how this nothingness of a factory is still so cheerful and lovely. In Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton uses dark eerie lighting to achieve the same mysterious effect. For example, when Kevin and his friends were outside before they robbed his house, it was dark and eerie. When they shoved him into the room it was bright and empty with nothing but Edward.
The shadows along the building tell the audience that the men inside are trapped and aren’t free. Throughout the scene, the lack of bright light shows how Andy might be feeling as he approaches Shawshank prison. This shows the lack of hope in this scene. In contrast, there is a scene where the character, Red is on the bus leaving the prison. The lighting in this scene is bright and there us a yellow filter being used to show how the idea of hope has helped Red through his journey in Shawshank.
Some of the key words and phrases from this passage that establish the tone are “street lights giving way”, “thin streaming”, and “black unbroken wall”. Even the time of day, late at night, is a significant contributing factor in the darkness that is to come. All of this stimulating imagery gives the reader a taste for the darkness to come, and there hasn’t been any significant action yet. Another perfect example of the dreary tone used in this story is the description of the lake. At one point, Boyle compares the algae covered surface of the lake to scabs on skin.
The Swan provides a number of contrasts - light and dark, noise and quiet and formal and informal. Keller’s room is dark because of the shutters which also block out the noise from the bar below while outside there is the brilliant sunshine, the noise of the bar and the “blue singlets” of the men who patronise the pub. The school, like the Swan, depicts the lower elements of society. The concrete and asphalt construction seems only to house the delinquent element which Paul avoids by escaping to the music
Snyder begins the poem with a cold and lifeless depiction of some unknown place, describing it as a “massive concrete shell lit by glass tubes…” The phrasing is so vague that it is very difficult to get an understanding of what this place is. It is only when we reach the second stanza we conclude the location of a shopping mall or department store. The author’s choice of words easily shows his feelings about this place. At a closer glance it can also be interpreted as Snyder’s feelings for the very people in this mall or store, which is that they themselves are cold and lifeless for spending so much of their leisure time there instead of doing something more productive. This interpretation is reinforced in the poem’s 3rd and last stanzas, where he uses terms like “clinging garb” and “trading all their precious time”.
The street is used differently between day and night, in the day there is the school run, people out shopping and eating in cafés, whereas at night there’s people visiting pubs, clubs and restaurants. In the day people visit The Macintosh Sports club, which is open to everyone, yet some view it as not accessible to them, the head coach describes it as a daunting place, where it’s all gated off, leading people to think it’s an
No one ever read anymore as the author stated “Magazines and books didn’t sell anymore” (156). On the November dark evening in the city, most people had their faces stuck to the television screen as stated, “The tombs, ill-lit by television light, where the people sat like the dead...” Also, when Mr. Mead was walking in the streets he whispered to every house, “What’s up tonight on Channel 4, Channel 7, Channel 9?” This is to show how the invention of the television made people sit inside and just watch TV. The setting of being in the future really brought technology close to people and just demonstrates how much society discourages individualism. Next, there was a lot of sneaking around because society discouraged individualism and the government wanted to keep everyone in their homes. Something as simple as taking a walk is "what Mr. Leonard Mead most dearly loved to do" (153).
Looking at the film, the first thing that I was able to depict is how run down the neighborhood and the city in general is. Although looking at the people on the streets and seeing how run down the buildings are in the city represented bad time or sadness, the color the producer used in the film set the mood outside in the streets and inside in the barbershop. Throughout the film, it is easy to notice that outside in the streets the sun would never shine. A grayscale look dropped down onto the city to create a dreary and lifeless environment. Taking a step inside the barbershop entered the viewer into a brand new world.
Throughout the book, very few children are appear in the text, even though creating them is the goal all attempt to obtain. Terrible wars are supposedly raging outside the city, but inside the city, people are safe from the outside forces of death and destruction. It is the darkness inside they have to worry about. What makes Gilead so scary is that it still looks the same, but its government and society are completely alien from our own. Gilead seems to be without freedom or choice.
John Pagan Pagan 1 Eng 111 Dr.Ali Should Smoking Be Banned in Public Places? Imagine sitting in a restaurant unable to enjoy a meal due to the cloud of smoke coming from a neighbor’s table. The fact that there was not a designated area for smokers has put the smoker and the non-smoker in an uncomfortable situation. Smoking should be banned in public places because non-smokers have a right to clean air, and because second hand smoke is more dangerous than actually smoking a cigarette. However, some people believe that smoking should not be banned in public places because it is the smoker’s choice to smoke just as it is the non-smokers choice not to smoke.