I get bored easily with books, but this novel kept me on my feet. The author played with my emotion such as, when Percy finally reunite with his mother, but loses her again to get way from the god of the under world. "The Lightning Thief is a great book for adults and kids. I've already recommended it to a couple of adult friends who experienced the same kind of can't-put-it-down pull that I did." said an anonymous person on blogcritics.org.
Discuss how the composer has effectively communicated both/either distinctive characters and distinctive themes in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” In Mark Haddon’s Curious incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Curious) he uses distinctive characters and distinctive themes that are present throughout this novel through literary forms and features. Haddon has used an interesting narrative structure to show effects of Christopher Boone as the distinctive narrator. Haddon has used the theme of the relationships connected to Christopher and his dysfunctional family in the novel that ultimately portrays the world around Christopher. Haddon also subverts the distinctive genre of detective fiction which is the only fiction Christopher can grasp which helps allow Christopher to come to conclusions. Through a close study of the narrative structure, relationships and detective fiction the reader will gain a better understanding of the distinctive elements of this novel.
Matthew Keezer English Essay 8/28/11 This quote taken from The Heart is a Lonely Hunter holds incredible importance for explaining the plot of the novel. The book, however, does not delve further into this observation made by Biff about the relationship of the main characters towards Singer. How this quote holds significance in the novel is shown by the initial observation of the quote, the deeper assumed meanings, and Biff’s disregard of his observation’s importance. In the quotation, Biff notices the similarity between the way Blount follows Singer and the way Singer used to follow “the sloppy Greek”. This shows that Singer has taken Spiros’ place and Blount has taken Singer’s place.
First of all, it can be said that this desire for books and affinity for words is an innate ability to all human beings. In Fahrenheit 451, Faber, the professor helping Montag, was taught like all other citizen not to think of books, and to denunciate anyone who might own books. Nevertheless, he decides to read them, because he is attracted by the material and intellectual content of them. He, of course, hid these, but he still had to bring them back home, which was dangerous. He put himself in danger for books, which proves that human are ready to take big risks for culture, which shows they have this innate and natural desire for books.
Sherlock Holmes is known by some as quite the literary hero. His skills of inference and deduction are quite well-known. If you ask someone what they think of when you mention Mr. Holmes, most responses will, more than likely, involve the words “Elementary, my dear Watson.” This “quote” however is rather misleading. Besides the fact that those words, in that order, were never put to paper by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the statement itself implies a close-friendly relationship between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. However, Watson is less Holmes’s “sidekick” as he is a super-fan who follows Holmes and fawns over his amazing abilities.
Faber’s Knowledge Books are something everyone takes advantage of, nobody knows how important they are until they’re gone. In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 Montag goes to Faber to seek advice about the books. He finds out Faber’s beliefs in book’s purpose, quality, and the leisure of people. Faber also believes that fear of the truth in books drove people away, and now without the books there is only chaos. When Faber told Montag what the purpose of books were, he spoke, “Books are a receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget,” so without them everything would slowly be forgotten (83).
During all the excitement that Christopher runs into, he doesn’t forget his mother address; his memory can visualize the letter and the address on it. Haddon is trying to tell the audience how even autistic people can have rare talents not given to most people. A further understanding is made that autism is not a setback on ones abilities to learn and reach success. The Curious Incedent of the Dog in the Night-time is a great book to read. It gives an understanding of autism that most do not recognize.
Name ___________________ Date ____________ Period ___________ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time By Mark Haddon The rule for working out prime numbers is really simple, but no one has ever worked out a simple formula for telling you whether a very big number is a prime number or what the next one will be. If a number is really, really big, it can take a computer years to work out whether it is a prime number. Prime numbers are useful for writing codes and in America they are classed as Military Material and if you find one over 100 digits long you have to tell the CIA and they buy it off you for $10,000. But it would not be a very good way of making a living. Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken a Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away.
Like I said before, this chapter is mainly to bring the story back to life. Mrs Alexander having this information gives Christopher the impetus to go forward and carry on his investigation. Although Christopher doesn’t usually talk to strangers, he kicks the habit because Mrs Alexander says she as some information about his mum for him and what happened to the dog. Also this contradicts and makes Christopher an hypocrite to what he said earlier on in the book. He states that he cant tell lies, yet he tells his father that he wont carry on with investigation and as soon as Mrs Alexander lets him know that she has some information about his investigation, then he turns straight back too it.
In other books, he is foreseen as the weak link to Holmes. He usually is there to fill in small, minor details or aid Holmes in his “dirty work.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle does an excellent job of changing Holmes’s perspective on Dr. Watson’s work. At the beginning of the story, Holmes oversees his viewpoint on a particular cane left in their office from the night before. Dr. Watson offers his theory of the walking stick, declaring that the inscription, “To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.,” suggests that this cane belonged to an elderly doctor. Holmes encourages Watson’s speculation, and the doctor continues saying that the stick implies a country practitioner who walks a lot.