"You are always trying to be better than everyone else," Ruth told her sister Laurel. "Why do you always have to win at everything?" Ruth is speaking about a concept called striving for superiority, which was a foundational part of the theory of

"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