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A strong family background is very important for children who have any kind of permanent disease. In the following will be explained how the life of Jessie, one of the two main character of “’Night Mother” by Marsha Norman, could have been different if she had a stronger mother and a father who did not committed suicide. Jessie was a child who did not had the possibility to be with other children because her mother was too protective. But more important the mother did not had the knowledge about epilepsy and she was too scared of what other people would say if her daughter would have had an epileptic fit outside the house. She passed on this kind of embarrassment to her daughter and this feeling held for a life time. Even though the mother came up with this feeling she is not fully guilty because she did not