Curious Incident Mark Haddon Dialect Journal

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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal Eric Schlosser Quotation/Passage fromText (with page numbers) | Paraphrase or Summary | Analyze and React | “(pg.) | [ | The beginning of the book shows how observant Christopher really is and how he pays attention to the little details, and that’show his brain works. He includes every detail because he remembers every detail. | “All the other children at my school are stupid. Excepts I’m not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are. I’m meant to say that they have learning difficulties or that they have special needs. (pg. 43)” | The other kids are not as smart as Christopher, and Christopher know this. He has been told that calling them stupid is not right and that he should say they have learning difficulties. | When Christopher said this, I instantly thought that he thinks he is better than the other kids at his school just because he is going to an all special-need school.He knows that he is different from the other kids. | “Then he said, “I’m sorry, Christopher. I’m so, so sorry. (pg.114)” | Christopher’s dad is sorry that he lied to him about his mother being dead and that he felt bad for not giving him the letters. | Christopher got really upset and couldn’t trust his father any more since he lied to him about his own mother being dead. The fact that he couldn’t trust his own father made him not want to talk or live with him. Christopher has based his life on trust and now that the closest person in his life told a huge lie. | “And when I was asleep I had one of my favorite dreams. Sometimes I have it during the day, but then it’s a day dream. But I often have it at night as well.And in the dream nearly everyone on the earth is dead, because they have caught a virus. But it’s not like a normal virus. It’s like a computer virus. And people catch it because of the meaning

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