There are many ways darkness is used in The Child by Tiger. Thomas Wolfe associates night with darkness throughout the story. “And all would come again – the shout of the young voices, the hard thud of the kicked ball, and Dick moving, moving steadily, Dick moving, moving silently, a storm-white world and silence, and something moving, moving in the night.” (128) . This quote shows that black men during the night are camouflaged by their skin color, just like a tiger camouflaged in a fire. Another element used by Wolfe is the dark and unknown secrets of humans. “It was a savage clangorous alarm to the whole town, a brazen tongue