Summary Of Our Vanishing Night By Verlyn Klinkenborg

When I first laid eyes on this essay, written by Verlyn Klinkenborg, a member of the editorial board of the New York Times and a holder of a Ph.D. in English, I did not expect much. I presumed that an essay as short as Klinkenborg’s would be unable to thoroughly convey its argument, but as it turns out, its brevity — what I thought was the essay’s biggest weakness — is actually one of its biggest strengths. Klinkenborg’s essay, “Our Vanishing Night,” manages to provide the reader with a large amount of information while, at the same time, keeping the reader engaged. One of the many techniques that Klinkenborg uses to keep the reader engaged is switching between simple and somewhat advanced diction. One of the many examples of this is in paragraphs