author's note: This is a response to the novel, The Curious Incidient of the Dog in the Night-Time.
When I read the novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, it appeared to me that Christopher has many different behaviors. Christopher is a boy who is anti-social and is scared when people touch him. This is because he is tautistic. Symbolically humans don't want to express themselves unless they know the person. If the person is foreign, that shields our personality and the ability to open up to them. Another behavior that Christopher shows is he cannot tell a lie. Christopher claims he does "not tell lies." (19) and not telling lies is an excellent habbit to develope, and will come in handy in life. One last behavior that is strangely odd is he sees four red cars in a row it is a Good Day. Three red cars in a row made it a Quite Good Day and four yellow cars in a row made it a Black Day. This behavior is seen all the time by us humans. Everyday, if we realize it or not, we develope patterns to go throughout the day. Although Christopher's behaviors seem odd, in the real world, these behaviors apply to humans everyday.
I like how you wrote about the habits Christopher has, and that as humans, we also exhibit patterns too, even if we don't know it. You might want to give this response a title, though. Otherwise, nice job!
ReplyDeleteThe idea that we do the same sort of behaviors that Chris exhibits is a mature reading of the book. the fact is, we do the exact same sort of things, but we simply don't question them. Can you think of some of these behaviors?
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