Today our teacher Ms. Böttger gave me a very difficult task and now I’ve got a problem. I have to write at least 300 words, but I don’t know how I can realize that. I want to try:
In our fourth lesson about the novel we talked about people’s emotions, especially about Christopher and his problem with non-verbal communication. As you know he is autistic and so it’s difficult for him to recognize his emotions and to show or to say them. Also, he can´t imagine the feelings of others and it’s impossible for him to interpret something like gestures.
Therefore, Siobhan gave him some smileys on a piece of paper and explained to him what they meant. Until this moment the paper is Christopher’s companion - he carries it in his pocket. But that’s not all what she does for him concerning this topic. She helps Christopher to understand that one smiley can express different feelings and moods. However in the daily communication with other people the smiley-paper in his pocket doesn’t help him. It’s very difficult to decide which diagram is most like the face a person makes, because people’s faces move very quickly. So, he throws the paper in the bin and gets used to asking people what they mean or he walks away.
For us as readers it is not easy to recognize the character’s emotions because Christopher can’t describe them correctly. But it is possible, if we look exactly at Christopher’s words. You should know, Christopher uses a lot of aspects to describe the figures behaviour and feelings in the novel (that means in his own book). So it’s an indirect way for us to understand people’s emotions. For example: If Christopher describes, that the policeman “closed his mouth and breathed out loudly through his nose” I as a reader know that this man is stressed.
Another example … Oh sorry, it’s time to end – 323 words. Good bye! :)
(by Loreen)
In our fourth lesson about the novel we talked about people’s emotions, especially about Christopher and his problem with non-verbal communication. As you know he is autistic and so it’s difficult for him to recognize his emotions and to show or to say them. Also, he can´t imagine the feelings of others and it’s impossible for him to interpret something like gestures.
Therefore, Siobhan gave him some smileys on a piece of paper and explained to him what they meant. Until this moment the paper is Christopher’s companion - he carries it in his pocket. But that’s not all what she does for him concerning this topic. She helps Christopher to understand that one smiley can express different feelings and moods. However in the daily communication with other people the smiley-paper in his pocket doesn’t help him. It’s very difficult to decide which diagram is most like the face a person makes, because people’s faces move very quickly. So, he throws the paper in the bin and gets used to asking people what they mean or he walks away.
For us as readers it is not easy to recognize the character’s emotions because Christopher can’t describe them correctly. But it is possible, if we look exactly at Christopher’s words. You should know, Christopher uses a lot of aspects to describe the figures behaviour and feelings in the novel (that means in his own book). So it’s an indirect way for us to understand people’s emotions. For example: If Christopher describes, that the policeman “closed his mouth and breathed out loudly through his nose” I as a reader know that this man is stressed.
Another example … Oh sorry, it’s time to end – 323 words. Good bye! :)
(by Loreen)
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