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Think About CIDN

Think About CIDN. Consider:. Your neighbor gets a new kitten. You love kittens. Your neighbor lets you play with that kitten from time to time. One day you come home from school to find the kitten hanging by its neck from a tree, dead (of course).

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Think About CIDN

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  1. Think About CIDN

  2. Consider: • Your neighbor gets a new kitten. • You love kittens. • Your neighbor lets you play with that kitten from time to time. • One day you come home from school to find the kitten hanging by its neck from a tree, dead (of course). • Write a note to your neighbor, explaining what you found.

  3. Now… • Re-read chapter two. Does Christopher’s account of Wellington differ from your account to your neighbor of their kitten? If so, how? • Pay attention to other places in the novel where Christopher’s account of an emotional event lacks any indication of emotion in Christopher. • Why might this habit make Christopher, as Mark Haddon puts it, “The perfect narrator?”

  4. Consider • How does Christopher’s fascination with math and space travel manifest itself in his narration (aside from his frequent digressions about math and space travel)? • This becomes apparent in the first 10 pages

  5. Now… • Note Christopher’s frequent reference to time, distance, numbers, and space. • The repetition of an image, symbol, or idea in a work of literature is known as a motif • Motifs in CIDN • Science and Technology • Animals • Truth/Lies

  6. Consider… • the last sentence of chapter 31. • Re-write the sentence as you personally would have written it were you in Christopher’s shoes.

  7. Now… • What changes did you make in your own statement? • What does Christopher’s statement tell us about the way his mind works • Pay attention to other parts of the novel where Christopher has difficulty prioritizing information

  8. Consider… • What about his condition makes Christopher a good detective, in some respects? • What about his condition makes Christopher a poor detective? Consider some situations from the book that are painfully obvious to the reader, but which Christopher continually overlooks or misses completely.

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