What is one of the central ideas of the selection?

Players might try to hurt Jackie Robinson.
Branch Rickey had to find the right man for the job, and that man was Jackie Robinson.
Branch Rickey looked into the players’ characters.
Jackie Robinson was a talented athlete.

"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