post four.

I finished my book a long time ago, so do I still have to do these??
Actually its in my locker so i will commence this post tomorrow.

post 3 - the letters

"Then i stopped reading the letter because i felt sick.
mother had not had a heart attack. mother had not died. mother had been alive all the time. and father had lied about this."

i chose this passage because it is a huge climax in christopher's ongoing investigation of who may have killed his neighbor's dog, wellington. no, it doesn't tell him who killed the dog, but it is just one of the many new and somewhat disturbing things he discovers. the book is full of surprises. i think that christopher's investigation is somewhat of an epic convention to help the reader along to get to discoveries such as these. finding out that his mother is in fact not dead, but rather living in london with the ex-husband of the woman who's dog was killed, is much more important to him than who killed the dog. in order to make the story flow and get to these discoveries that christopher has to make sooner or later, i think the author created the plot of the dead dog. i am still wondering who might have killed the dog......was it his dad maybe??

the curiously second post

[for the record, mrs. alexander is his neighbor, wellington is the dead dog, and mr. shears is the husband of mrs. shears, who's dog is wellington. christopher is trying to find out who killed mrs. shears' dog against the orders of his father, who told him not to pry into the business of others.]

"Then I thought that this was a super good day and something special hadn't happened yet, so it was possible that talking to Mrs. Alexander was the special thing that was going to happen. And I thought that she might tell me something about Wellington or about Mr. Shears without me asking her, so that wouldn't be breaking my promise (Haddon 55)."

I thought that this passage was a good example of characterization of Christopher. It shows a little bit of how his mind works. He thinks that seeing 4 red cars in a row mean the day will be super good, and 4 yellow cars in a row mean the day will be super bad (he hates yellow). He shapes the events of his day on these quirks of his. This passage also shows his nature to tell the truth and abide by promises he makes to anyone. His nature is also to be very sneaky and thoughtful, as seen in the passage as he tries to think of ways to investigate Wellington's death without actually doing so.

New book - the curious incident of the dog in the night-time

"I find people confusing.

This is for two main reasons.

The first main reason is that people do a lot of talking without using any words. Siobhan says that if you raise one eyebrow it can mean lots of different things. It can mean "I want to do sex with you" and it can also mean "I think what you just said was very stupid."

Siobhan also says that if you close your mouth and breathe out loudly through your nose, it can mean that you are relaxed, or that you are bored, or that you are angry, and it all depends on how much air comes out of your nose and how fast and what shape your mouth is when you do it and how you are sitting and what you said just before and hundreds of other things which are too complicated to work out in a few seconds." 

This passage develops characterization of the main character and narrator, Christopher John Francis Boone. Throughout the book, the style of writing is as though the novel is being narrated by the autistic mind of Christopher. This passage was a good example of how his mind works as he talks about his trouble he has when trying to understand what other people mean. He is a very smart person but has a lot of difficulty interacting with people. His friend Siobhan tries to help him learn how to deal with people but as seen in this passage, Christopher remembers everything she tells him but does not know how to apply it to real life. I think his confusion about interactions with other people is going to shape the story.

questions:

do the police know he is autistic?

is he going to find out who killed the dog?

what kind of school does he go to?

who is siobhan?

what kind of autism does he have?