Read the paragraph. when alissa finally reeled in the catfish, we were speechless. it looked big enough to eat alissa’s dog. the fish was which word would best complete 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