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?
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