In the shadow of war by Ben Okri

This is a story that talks about the period people were living in Africa while the Nigerian civil war was on. This period was pretty hard for this people, not only by the war situation they were living in, but also because of the daily situation they lived in, like children starving to death.
Something interesting about this lecture is that story is told by an external narrator in third person. This helps us to understand how things are happening from outside the story, but still it leaves us the chance to predict what will happen and also how the characters deep emotions and feelings are.
There is a part in the story when a person announces by radio that there is going to happen an eclipse. Most of the times, when an eclipse occurs everything goes dark, but as soon as it is over, the light comes back and everything returns back to normality. After listening to this new, Omovo's father says that it does not matter because it won't change his actual situation. I compare this fragment with one at the end of the story when Omovo wakes up in the middle of his room in the darkness, and he desesperatly runs to the balcony of his house, but as soon as he reaches the light, he realizes nothing comes back to normality, like in an eclipse should occur, and that his reality is his own nightmare, because normality seems pretty far.