Alice Munro, the author of “Night,” deals with the struggles of insomnia through her fear of what happened in her recent appendectomy, thoughts of killing her younger sister, and gradual isolation from her family. In this aforementioned essay, Munro induces a sense of tragedy by portraying the overall decay in her mental and physical health. The reader finds the story more relatable because the author is providing an account of her own experience. She demonstrated to the audience that by desiring to let herself consider the inconsiderable, killing her sister, she was portraying that “something was taking hold of [me] and it was [my] business to fight it off” (19). Teenagers with mental illnesses, who feel isolated by the world, are the focus
