Reaction to dog genocide book.

Well, let us see. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon, was indeed a curious book. It really was a unique and eye opening book. At first, Chris just wanted to find the murderer of the poodle. Silly poodle. Christopher’s simple yet challenging investigation of Wellington’s murder Lead him to uncover a dark and distraught secret about his parents. They weren't his real parents! I'm just kidding, actually his mom was alive and not dead like his father had said. This caused him to lose his trust in his father and to set out on an epic and tron filled quest to London in search of his mother. Beautiful plot, yes, but I've seen it before so it was alright in my eyes.

What i look for most in a book is the meaning of events. Things that make me think or that make me understand whats going on better. I enjoy coming up with meanings or symbolic values of events. Its like a mind puzzle for me. For today's blog i will use motifs as my "word-of-the-blog". something new that i have just decided to include in my blogs, only where it can be applicable though. Now, a motif is a reoccurring event in a story that holds some symbolic value.

I'm choosing the love of science that Chris has, since i share the same love. One thing that caught my eye was when Christopher started talking about alien life forms and the workings of the human mind. Exobiology is fascinating my my eyes and the human mind has to be the hardest and most sporadic system in existence. Christopher feels most comfortable with subjects that he views as logical, such as physics and math. I also feel comfortable with things i view as logical. In mathematics, you can see why something works and why it doesn't. You have proof for what you say and what you see. In other subjects such as social studies you cant really prove history like you can prove math. It just isn't as strong of proof to me, therefore i have trouble paying attention in those classes, just like how Chris has trouble understanding feelings and other non logical things. 

When a book has things such as motifs, i can connect with it better and understand the feelings that the author wants to send through his words. I feel like The curious incident of the dog in the night-time did a good job in doing this. it wasn't a book that just came out and screamed at feelings. At some parts one had to actually look deeper into the meaning to understand the feelings of the character.


                                                                                                                             ~TarzanTron