The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Study Questions
Section 3,p. 65-99Due:
Please respond in full, thoughtful sentences. Be sure to include specific examples in each of your responses. Use a different color font to type your answers.
- Christopher compares his mind to a computer doing searches and to a DVD player. Explain how his mind makes sense of what he’s experiencing.
- Discuss Christopher’s attitude toward the supernatural. How does it influence how he regards his mother’s death?
- What purpose does Christopher’s long discourse (discussion) on The Hound of the Baskervilles serve?
- Christopher has difficulties with rhetorical questions. What is a rhetorical question and why would he have trouble understanding them?
- How are Christopher’s parents developed in this section? What information do we learn about their characters? Provide examples to support the character traits you name for each parent.
- Explain Christopher’s color preferences. How do colors help him deal with the world?
- Apply the principle of Occam’s razor to Christopher’s reaction to the letter. Does he appear to apply Occam’s razor to this situation?
- Discuss the correlation (connection) between Christopher’s reluctance to accept the truth of his mother’s letter and his relationship with his father as expressed on page 87.
- What do you think Christopher will do when he realizes his mother isn’t really dead?
Response #3- Please respond in a minimum of 10 sentences.
What do you learn from this section about the difficulties of raising a disabled child? Do you think the author faults the mother for abandoning Christopher or does he sympathize with the mother? Explain and support your answer. This means- state your opinion then, provide examples from the novel (with page numbers!) that support your opinion statement. You must also explain how these examples support your opinion statement.