NIGHT- ALICE MUNRO

Question 1

introduction
type of story-
plot-
technique-

Answer 1

short story and partly autobiographical
illness
memory

Question 2

setting

Answer 2

father is a farmer- poor
mother has a severe illness and is going through medication
she has appendix and gets it removed
she might have got cancer
her sister cathereine is alright , munro wants to kill her

Question 3

relationship with mother

Answer 3

far relationship.not deep.only direct comments.she is not even allowed to talk about her own illness.cloud around cancer

Question 4

relationship with father

Answer 4

has evolved over the years.we can see from the text that her father has beaten her up when she was young.
‘razor sharp and belt’.but she thinks it is for her own good.has key influence in her growth.
As day lightens and the birds sing, suggesting a new dawn in her rela!onship with herself, she revels all – writing her father in a personal direct speech and rela!ng her responses indirectly and with a lack of overt emo!on. He simply waits and allows her to speak – she is clear that she would never have spoken ‘If he had given the slightest indication that he knew there was more’. She reveals the secret despite her attempts to remain silent – ‘strangle her’ I said then. I could not stop myself a-er all. As she writes this she gives voice to her worry in the only direct speech of this sequence given to her words.

Question 5

tone

Answer 5

conversational.she is being very careful with her tone using words such as ‘so’ and ‘now’ .

Question 6

diffrent moods

Answer 6

terror and humour, when she discribes the bed and the games

Question 7

routine

Answer 7

munro is often left out and unoccupied during the day.one consequence for this act was ‘trouble getting sleep’, presumably since she was not physically tired.
she tries to make light of the new situation- alone and unable to sleep she explores the darker side of her sub-concious mind.she is also faced with thoughts of killing her sister who did nothing and was vunerable.she comments’the thought that I could strangle my sister, who was asleep below me in her bunker and whom I loved more than anything in the world’.This forces her to go outdoor and wander of in the night, where she finds serinity and peace.One night she sees her father following her-or not.we never know.This is her story, not her father’s.