In the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the author Mark Haddon uses the main character Christopher as symbol of innocence. Christopher is a young special-needs boy, who has certain rules that define how he lives his life. For instance, if he sees a certain number of red cars, or a certain number of yellow cars he believes it will determine how his day will turn out. He refuses to eat anything yellow, and he doesn't like the color brown. Many of us wish we could be like Christopher, having black and white lives, never telling lies. Christopher is lucky that he has lived for so long, holding onto his innocence.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Christopher's Innocence
In the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the author Mark Haddon uses the main character Christopher as symbol of innocence. Christopher is a young special-needs boy, who has certain rules that define how he lives his life. For instance, if he sees a certain number of red cars, or a certain number of yellow cars he believes it will determine how his day will turn out. He refuses to eat anything yellow, and he doesn't like the color brown. Many of us wish we could be like Christopher, having black and white lives, never telling lies. Christopher is lucky that he has lived for so long, holding onto his innocence.
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True, Christopher is a symbol of innocence. Do we try to make the world a black and white place to live? Do we have odd little ideas about the world around us like he has about colors, and numbers?
ReplyDeleteThis is really good Alex! I really never thought that Christopher is a symbol of innocence. Nice job pulling that out!
ReplyDeleteYou have a good point about how he holds onto innocence and how it goes along with how he doesn't lie. Good job.
ReplyDeleteI like how you brought up the symbolism of Christopher representing innocence; I didn't notice that. Nice work.
ReplyDeleteGreat piece. In response to Mr. Johnson's comment, I think that we do try to make the world a black and white place, because it makes it easier to live in. However, it is very nearly impossible to do so, and Christopher certainly is lucky to have kept it up for so long.
ReplyDeleteAlex, I really liked this response! Your ideas are really good like how he is very innocent which didn't catch at first, however. I felt you could have elaborated a little more on your good ideas. Great job :)
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