The Darkness In The Faces example essay topic

1. "I stared at it in the swinging lights of the subway car, and in the faces and bodies of the people, and in my own face, trapped in the darkness that roared outside" (80) 2. "All they really knew were two darknesses, the darkness of their lives, which was now closing in on them, and the darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to that other darkness, and in which they now, vindictively, dreamed, at once more together than they were at any other time, and more alone" (80). 3.

"One boy was whistling a tune, at once very complicated and very simple, it seemed to be pouring out of him as though he were a bird, and it sounded very cool and moving through all that harsh, bright air, only just holding its own through all those other sounds" (81). 4. "The bright sun deadened his damp dark brown skin and it made his eyes look yellow and showed up the dirt in his kinked hair" (81). 5. "But now I feel like a man who's been trying to climb up out of some deep, real deep and funky hole and just saw the sun up there, outside.

I got to get outside" (83). 6. "Yet, as the cab moved uptown through the streets which seemed, with a rush, to darken with dark people, and as I covertly studied Sonny's face, it came to me that what we both were seeking through our separate cab windows was that part of ourselves which had been left behind" (85). 7. "You can see the darkness growing against the windowpanes "For a moment nobody's talking, but every face looks darkening, like the sky outside "The silence, the darkness coming, and the darkness in the faces frightens the child obscurely. He hopes that the hand which strokes his forehead will never stop-will never die.

He hopes that there will never come a time when the old folks won't be sitting around the living room, talking about where they " ve come from, and what they " ve seen, and what's happened to them and their kinfolk" (87). 8. "But something deep and watchful in the child knows that this is bound to end, is already ending. In a moment someone will get up and turn on the light "And when the light fills the room, the child is filled with darkness. He knows that every time this happens he's moved just a little closer to that darkness outside. The darkness outside is what the old folks have been talking about.

It's what they " ve come from. It's what they endure. The child knows that they won't talk any more because if he knows too much about what's happened to them, he " ll know too much too soon, about what's going to happen to him" (87). 9. "and there was a moon that night, it was bright like day "He says he never in his life seen anything as dark as that road after the lights of that car had gone away" (88-89). 10.

"There was a long pause, while they talked up there in the indigo light and after awhile I saw the girl put a Scotch and milk on top of the piano for Sonny. He didn't seem to notice it, but just before they started playing again, he sipped from it and looked toward me, and nodded "For me, then, as they began to play again, it glowed and shook above my brother's head like the very cup of trembling" (103).