Read the sentence from barrio boy by ernesto galarza. josé bought us two cardboard suitcases and one for himself, and an alarm clock like the one we used to try to win in the lottery tent in mazatlan. which word has a connotative meaning in the sentence?

"night. no one was praying for the night to pass quickly. the stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes." explain the images included in the passage. how is the use of the image of night contradictory to how we might expect it to be used