E 314J Chapter 2: Reading Notes for “The Evening and the Morning and the Night”
Document Summary
Page 1-2: the narrator and family have a disease that makes them violent and suicidal where the father killed himself and his wife/narrator"s mother. Page 3: narrator passes time in school while waiting for the inevitability of death. Page 4: narrator says that not all people with the disease end up like the parents--some of them make amazing inventions, but mainly receive attention for the disease. Page 5: narrator moves in with other dgds and reminds them to clean up daily as they forget. Page 6: a new dgd moves in and the narrator tells him (alan) of the suicidal attempt in the ward. Page 7: the two dgds discuss their parents" deaths (due to the disease). Page 8: alan states that the disease could be easily wiped out with sterilization and the narrator takes him to bed when realizing the conversation took a depressing and bitter turn.
