2nd March 2010
Today, we started properly with the murder mystery novel “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” written by Mark Haddon.
Although our first experience with the book was reading it, we had some new experiences today, too. We were concentrating on the main character of this murder mystery novel: Christopher John Francis Boone. Christopher seems to be an unusual teenager due to his behaviour, but with the help of a so called “continuum” we found out that he does have some ordinary characteristics, e.g. he likes dogs and is very curious. And this is how a “continuum” works, referring to Christopher like we did: You draw a long line, on the one end you write “ordinary teenager” and on the other end you write “unusual teenager”. Then you read a few chapters again and the information you get has to be matched either to the one or to the other side, according to which one fits better.
Another point we had a look at was Christopher´s not understanding of jokes. We already found that out while we were reading the book, but we had a closer look at it today. After all we figured out that he doesn´t like jokes because of the double meanings of some words. He feels uncomfortable with it as those double meanings make him think of too many meanings of one word at the same time and this is too much for him, so he gets confused and therefore he doesn´t like jokes.
As the book is a murder mystery novel we also talked about what is typical for this genre. We came so far that we can say the murderer, the victims and witnesses, but also the murder itself and an object like a garden fork that is used to commit a murder are typical for this special type of genre, but the setting is also important to create a certain atmosphere.
So far for one day, other interesting days will certainly follow when we are going to deal with the book in more detail.
(by Sarah B.)
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