Welcome to our class blog. This is a place for you to write and think about the texts in a more informal way. It's an opportunity to carry the conversation outside of the classroom and become a little more tech-savvy.
Now that you've joined the blog, your first assignment is to create your own post in which you:
Choose a specific passage from the The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (no longer than a page) that you think reveals something significant about the way Christopher sees the world around him. Think carefully about Christopher’s vision. Type the passage out in your post and then explain (at least 5 sentences) why you chose the passage and what it reveals about Christopher.
"All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though that is what they are. I'm meant to say that they have learning difficulties or that they have special needs. But this is stupid because everyone has learning difficulties because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult and also everyone has special needs, like Father, who has to carry a little packet artificial sweetening tablets around with him to put in his coffee to stop him from getting fat, or Mrs. Peters who wears a beige-coloured hearing aid, or Siobhan, who has glasses so thick that they give you a headache if you borrow them, and none of these people are Special Needs, even if they have special needs"
ReplyDeleteI think that this shows Christopher's mind state when it comes to the word "Special Needs". Also it shows the type of people he thinks he is surrounded with. He thinks that they are all so stupid and that they have special needs and he doesn't. I find it interesting his mind state towards his classmates.