Books,
especially prose fiction, have become an integral part of my life since the
time when my mother taught me how to read. I’m a real bookworm, and, therefore,
I can hardly wait to start reading the third but, unfortunately, the last book
on this semester’s English syllabus. Without any hesitation I have decided to
choose Aleksandr’s second topic for my today’s post, and, so, I would like to
dedicate it to Mark Haddon’s book The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. As I haven’t read even the
first page of this novel, my post will fully consist of the guesses that I made
looking at the cover of this book.
On the
cover of the book we can see some short responses to this novel, and these
positive comments make me hope that The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is an extremely interesting
book with an unusual, breathtaking plot. I think the colors of the cover and the
pictures on it are more typical of the books which are intended for children.
Nevertheless, I hope this novel amazes both children and adults. According to
the preview on the back cover, this novel is a first-person narrative book.
However, the narrator, Christopher Boone, isn’t an ordinary person. He is a
fifteen-year-old boy who has Asperger’s Syndrome. As I know, this disorder
affects social skills. I suppose Christopher, as all people with AS, has
problems with understanding and using nonverbal communication such as gestures,
facial expressions and eye contact. He
may also find it difficult to understand jokes, irony and metaphors. As the
narrator is a child with AS, I think the main aim of this book is to show the
feelings, thoughts and perceptions of the world that a person not similar to
most of the readers of this book has. By the way, as the narrator is only 15
years old, I believe that the vocabulary used by him will be easy to understand,
and, therefore, using the dictionary won’t deflect me from enjoying the book.
For me, the
preview on the back cover seems to be extraordinary. This short description
really attracts my attention. So, my expectation is that I will be really
amazed at the plot of this novel!
I've known that the narrator isn't an ordinary boy but he is a boy with AS from you because I haven't read the back cover. Before it I thank that he is just a strange boy. Vocabulary in this book is not difficult, it's really to read it without dictionary. I use dictionary time by time but not often. I hope you didn't disappear in this book. I think that is realy an interesting book.
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