The Curious Kid

Well, it has been along week. Now,  we are going towards the hectic and discouraging part of school: Finals week }:<

During Mr. Sutherland's class today, my group and I had a discussion about the second half of The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon it was not as intriguing and energetic as the previous discussion we had last Friday, but it was all right. Although the discussion was not awesome as usual, we hit a few interesting points. For instance, Vincent, he gave a lot of clarification and back up to his observations of the book. He also tried to integrate a few level three questions, but it was challenging, for all of us. Another engaging discussion question was: "How does Christopher's mind work and had does it affect the book". Many people responded to the question by say that his disability and life style is what bring the book together; the climatic events streaming in the book, relates to the hardships and achievements Christopher overcomes. This question brought plenty of comments and other questions.

During my experience of the second half of this fascinating book, I could say was very stimulating and pleasurable. I say this because understanding that Christopher has a syndrome, you can see the differences between a person with the condition and without, which shows the positive and negative affects on a person. Christopher is very knowledgeable, and observing how he reacts with certain things and how he understands stuff establishes a closer connection with the reader and the character. This is because I figured out that his mother did not die and his father was lying to him the whole time. This fact stimulated lots of questions in my head, like: "Was his Father lying to him for the better, or was it because he hated what she done to him? This question was also asked by Amber, many people responded by saying that because of Christopher's disability, he did not want him to take it the wrong way or he just did not want to tell him because it is embarrassing to the Father. I totally agreed with everyone’s analysis on this idea, but building to a level three question is harder than scratching a chicken's butt.

So, what I learned about my group is that for now on, we should write down lots of level three questions while reading the book individually. This will improve our discussions and reduce the amount of level one and two questions during the discussion. I also understand why our discussion was not attentive and enthusiastic as usual (because we had that stupid family day, thingy).

I cannot believe we are almost done with the book; this is insane. I freaking love this book; it’s so unusual and sticking. I predict that Mrs. Alexander will tell the Father where Christopher went and he will go to the train station and find him and tell talk to him about this huge move he is willing to take. I think Christopher is not going to go; he just cannot go. He just can't.