Short Story

The stars are bright and radiant-- their numbers are vast beyond all imagination. They shine in the dark sky, like billions of little lights hanging from nonexistent threads. It is a reality that not many people stop to admire. In the city people sink down into their couches at night and drift away, eventually, to the slumber that most people crave. But the stars, shining endlessly, are there night after night, in the rain and even in the snow. If you just stop for a moment, on a night with no clouds, and look up, you will see this magnificent

The thirst for something stable is evident as the children show their awe of the physical world. As an adult explains the stars to Mazie, Olsen writes: "As his words misted into the night and disappeared, she scarcely listened‹only the aura over them of timelessness, of vastness, of eternal things that had

Namuh, the infinite planeswalker, was glowing, rising up. Something small entered him. It was shaped like a star. Namuh was unharmed. Namuh rose from the bench he'd been sleeping on, adjacent to the mystical pond of creation Star had told him about.

"By the keeper!" The burning man proclaimed and jumped back. Vishah looked up at the man, man was holding a torch that's what had blinded him. But the man himself, glowed. As if lit from within. Vishah peered at the man teying to find an origin to the strange light. The more he looked at it the more the void grew restless. It growled greadly, that light could be his, it's power, its beauty.

The sun shined on him, as it was going down at sunset.Then he saw the glimpse of the beast.Green scales,red eyes,and a broken wing.

He summoned the power of the Light when he needed it. “... and with all his might summoned the power of Light to come to his aid.” Believing in your power is a theme that is depicted all throughout the

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).

“Those stars weren't so big. They were really so small You might think such a thing wouldn't matter at

night the stars lose their shine.” This poem reflects on how pop culture values physical appearance but that’s something that will eventually diminish and the tables have turned.

the light is his way of saying he knows God is with him. In his reference of fate, he says

God yet that star was nowhere to be found. He noticed that when his uncle had been cursed by

The motto and metaphor “let you light shine” contrasts peters experience at St Patricks college where his “light” did not shine and he felt like he didn’t belong unlike most other students after finishing school they feel part of the school.

Furthermore, the author uses personification to develop the message by making it seem like the stars can move around and cause commotion. For example, Plath says, “The stars drop silently.” (Plath 4). As a result, the author makes us think of stars as if they are people who move around and make noise, causing the audience to see stars in a different perspective. Plath also makes it seem as if the river is an uncontrollable kid by using, “But tonight they have discovered this

Most of us remember the lullaby “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”. The truth behind it is that stars

The evening star sheds light on the deep love and thoughts that the author carries within himself. It is necessary to note that the author is the narrator who addresses the evening star that is unnamed, and at the beginning of the poem