Hello all, the book I am now currently reading is called 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time', which I introduced to all of you as a weird and unusual murder-mystery novel by Mark Haddon in my previous blog post. So far I have read 86 pages out of 268 (I succeeded in reading over 80 pages! Yay!).
The protagonist/main character of this book is Christopher John Francis Boone, or just Christopher. who is a fifteen year old boy, attending a high school, with Asperger's Syndrome, which makes him always very distant, hard to understand people, having a lot of social trouble, and prefer to be alone. As I already said in my other post, he is very good at and takes a special interest in science/technology, math, physics, etc. One of his life goals are to get an A/perfect score in his high-level math classes, and get a First Class Honours Degree. In the beginning of the book, he says that the types of books he likes are scientific or non-fiction books, or mathematical. Every night, he likes to go out i the middle of the night when it is quiet, calm, and isolated, because he likes the calmness. He also like to always speak the truth. Or more like, he can't lie or not speak the truth, because he said that if he lies about something, he starts thinking about all of the things that didn't happen. For example: if he says that he ate a sandwich, not soup like he actually did, he starts to think that he wasn't eating in Africa, there wasn't a pig in the room, and so on, which he doesn't like, because it stops his brain to function properly. It is also impossible to think of all of the things that didn't happen, because imagination is infinite. One very weird thing he said while explaining about his brain was that he refers to his brain as a machine. Then he gave an example of a bread slicer in his uncle's bread factory, which sometimes gets jammed when too many bread comes into the machine in a very fast speed, which makes it hard for the bread slicer to slice all of the bread. Christopher also likes to keep track of time, and every now-and-then throughout the book, he mentions what time it is. When he is not concentrating on anything else, he likes to solve mathematical equations or problems inside his head, or either scientific facts he reminds himself and thinks about. He doesn't like it when people are touching him or shouting and screaming, and often doesn't understand what and how a person is feeling and wants to tell him. He is very logical, so he doesn't understand jokes or any other things which are not logical. So he concluded this explanation about his dislike or misunderstanding of jokes by telling the reader that he will not put any jokes in this book. He also considers everything which is not true a lie, so he considers a metaphor a lie because he says he just can't logically and realistically imagine (for example) how an apple of someone's eye means that that a person liked another person, or a pig being a day, or a skeleton being in the cupboard, etc. So he actually also considers his own name a lie, because Christopher was the name of St. Christopher in Catholic or Christian and such religions, which means Christ = Jesus Christ, and opher = carry/to carry, because in the Bible, it says that St. Christopher carried Jesus across a river. But he says that all of these religions are a lie, because they have not been scientifically and logically proven that they were all real (I was kind of angry/frustrated at this part because I am Christian... sorry. Just my own feelings.). From all of these things he said in the book and his explanations about himself basically tells you about who he is. But if you want to know more about how he is like, I think you should read the book, because it is written in first person. I don't know very much about how he looks like though, because he doesn't really mention how he looks like. But I know that he has glasses, has both arms and legs and is not physically disabled, because he can walk around and lift things up with his arms. I think that he just has a normal body of an average 15 year old boy.
I'm not really sure who the antagonist is in this novel, because (I think) there isn't a specific thing/person/presence that bothers Christopher or which Christopher is going against. But I think, judging by (my guessed) the conflict of the book, which I think is Man vs. Man or Man vs. The Unknown, I think the antagonist is the murderer or the lack of knowledge of who the murderer is and specific information about the murder. I'm still not sure because I still didn't get to the part when Christopher finds out who the murderer of Wellington is, and the lack of knowledge or clues didn't seem to particularly bother him.
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The protagonist/main character of this book is Christopher John Francis Boone, or just Christopher. who is a fifteen year old boy, attending a high school, with Asperger's Syndrome, which makes him always very distant, hard to understand people, having a lot of social trouble, and prefer to be alone. As I already said in my other post, he is very good at and takes a special interest in science/technology, math, physics, etc. One of his life goals are to get an A/perfect score in his high-level math classes, and get a First Class Honours Degree. In the beginning of the book, he says that the types of books he likes are scientific or non-fiction books, or mathematical. Every night, he likes to go out i the middle of the night when it is quiet, calm, and isolated, because he likes the calmness. He also like to always speak the truth. Or more like, he can't lie or not speak the truth, because he said that if he lies about something, he starts thinking about all of the things that didn't happen. For example: if he says that he ate a sandwich, not soup like he actually did, he starts to think that he wasn't eating in Africa, there wasn't a pig in the room, and so on, which he doesn't like, because it stops his brain to function properly. It is also impossible to think of all of the things that didn't happen, because imagination is infinite. One very weird thing he said while explaining about his brain was that he refers to his brain as a machine. Then he gave an example of a bread slicer in his uncle's bread factory, which sometimes gets jammed when too many bread comes into the machine in a very fast speed, which makes it hard for the bread slicer to slice all of the bread. Christopher also likes to keep track of time, and every now-and-then throughout the book, he mentions what time it is. When he is not concentrating on anything else, he likes to solve mathematical equations or problems inside his head, or either scientific facts he reminds himself and thinks about. He doesn't like it when people are touching him or shouting and screaming, and often doesn't understand what and how a person is feeling and wants to tell him. He is very logical, so he doesn't understand jokes or any other things which are not logical. So he concluded this explanation about his dislike or misunderstanding of jokes by telling the reader that he will not put any jokes in this book. He also considers everything which is not true a lie, so he considers a metaphor a lie because he says he just can't logically and realistically imagine (for example) how an apple of someone's eye means that that a person liked another person, or a pig being a day, or a skeleton being in the cupboard, etc. So he actually also considers his own name a lie, because Christopher was the name of St. Christopher in Catholic or Christian and such religions, which means Christ = Jesus Christ, and opher = carry/to carry, because in the Bible, it says that St. Christopher carried Jesus across a river. But he says that all of these religions are a lie, because they have not been scientifically and logically proven that they were all real (I was kind of angry/frustrated at this part because I am Christian... sorry. Just my own feelings.). From all of these things he said in the book and his explanations about himself basically tells you about who he is. But if you want to know more about how he is like, I think you should read the book, because it is written in first person. I don't know very much about how he looks like though, because he doesn't really mention how he looks like. But I know that he has glasses, has both arms and legs and is not physically disabled, because he can walk around and lift things up with his arms. I think that he just has a normal body of an average 15 year old boy.
I'm not really sure who the antagonist is in this novel, because (I think) there isn't a specific thing/person/presence that bothers Christopher or which Christopher is going against. But I think, judging by (my guessed) the conflict of the book, which I think is Man vs. Man or Man vs. The Unknown, I think the antagonist is the murderer or the lack of knowledge of who the murderer is and specific information about the murder. I'm still not sure because I still didn't get to the part when Christopher finds out who the murderer of Wellington is, and the lack of knowledge or clues didn't seem to particularly bother him.
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