ccray55051 ccray55051 08-03-2018 English contestada n "The Bat Poet," why does the bat go to sleep with the other bats at the end of the story? He is suffering from writer's block and takes comfort in being among his own kind. He is frightened of attack from owl, so he cannot sleep on the porch. He is now comfortable with himself: a bat and a poet. The porch is torn down, so he has no other choice but to sleep in the barn.