Darkness by Alexandra El-Galaly

Darkness by Alexandra El-Galaly
This is the Novella that Alexandra spent eight weeks writing for our English class.

This story is more of a description than an action-packed story. It talks about how the human race is simply greedy and that it wants everything for its self, that they will demolish anything for their personal benefit and that they simply live to die, that there is no purpose to their life. This story describes in immense detail the meaning of depression, about how no one can measure depression because everyone is different. She describes it as being like a river that changes with the seasons and over time.
She describes the pain that the person feels as they look upon unfortunate people because they feel ashamed of what is going on in their mind.
I love the way that Alexandra portrayed the fact that we always expect the worse because it is highly improbable so when it does not happen, we feel relieved. We do this because we enjoy the feeling of relief. This story ends with an extremely beautiful passage about death and how easy and how excruciatingly beautiful it is to die, to feel the pain of a knife slicing into the skin.

I enjoyed reading this short story very much. Alexandra's style of writing is extremely embellished and overall a very gripping story.