my english book review that i've written:

An autistic savant who can list all the prime numbers up to 7,057, Christopher John Francis Bone’s not so good with emotion, and since the story related in Mark Haddon’s delightful first murder mystery novel, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” concerns the dissolution of his parents marriage and the precarious nature of the care he needs to survive, we have to read between his lines.

The victim of the murder mystery is Wellington, a large poodle with black fur owned by Eileen Shears, turns up dead, by “garden fork”, shortly after midnight. Christopher discovers the body because he’s a night owl, favoring the hours of “3am or 4am in the morning when I can walk up and down the street and pretend that I am the only person in the world”. Christopher, who wishes to solve the murder of Wellington, finds another mystery as a result. The initiator of chaos is the murderer of Wellington, a mystery Christopher chooses to solve. This turns out to be Christopher’s father, Ed Boone, who brings further turmoil with his deception regarding the death of Christopher’s mother. Typically, the protagonist prevails and the antagonist suffers: the good guy wins and the bad guy loses.

The search for order and stability is the first major theme of the novel. For Christopher, the desire for order and stability is actually a necessity of living; he suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism, he needs an ordered and stable life to be happy and safe. Anything that jeopardizes this not only damages his mental state, but also brings him physical pain. The title of the book – a reference to the Sherlock Holmes mystery “The Adventure of Silver Blaze” – points to the other major theme of the novel: the role of absences in life, and how people often fail to see the significance of what is not there. The novel is double mystery, and the second mystery deals with the absence of his mother, which Christopher had accepted the way the silence of the dog in “ The Adventure of Silver Blaze” was mistakenly accepted as normal in that story.

As compared to the second adult novel by Mark Haddon, “A Spot of Brother”, both novels deal with mental health issues from the point-of-view of the patient. In “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”, my favorite character is also the book’s autistic narrator; Christopher is gifted at and focused on Mathematics. The book also includes the unlikely incident of seeing four yellow cars in a row which is bad, an event which holds significance to the narrator, who has an aversion to the color yellow. Christopher’s way of believing was what made him different from the others. For example, remembering a particularly excruciating vacation in France, he writes, “ people go on holidays to see new things and relax, but it wouldn’t make me relaxed and you can see new things by looking at the Earth under a microscope or drawing the shape of the solid made when 3 circular rods of equal thickness intersect at right angles.”

The reason why I like this book and why I would recommend this book to another person is the same. Christopher’s narration is precise and reliable about objective facts but his view of the story’s events is often very different from what might be expected. Through his narration, we see the scene whereby Christopher was nearly killed by an oncoming train unfold completely, but he remains unaware of the danger he is in and of the closeness of his brush with death. It has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

Anyone would like this book because here is a fiction about a character who says he can only tell the truth, he can not tell lies but he gets everything wrong. Here is a narrator who seems to be hugely ill-equipped for writing a book because he cannot understand other people’s emotions, he misses the bigger picture and yet it makes him incredibly well suited to narrate a book. He never explains too much. He never tries to persuade the reader to feel about things this way or that way but once you slip into the world as he sees it, you feel surprisingly comfortable.
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and once again im gonna say that you are not supposed to say im random. but ok, maybe i am but ya. im going to the wet market with my mum later i guess? im not sure, i just love new year cause you can go to the wet market like late at night. woohoo. chinese test was oh so heng. i know the answer because mr wang feng was practically waving the paper infront of me telling us how to staple the papers together. stayed back after school and to do my dnt, then brenda they all was asking about the english essay stuffs. i didnt know i got an a1 ok,diao. and some people were like taking cny videos of like those wishing words and stuffs. mr yeo was dam funny ok, and he wore ivan's specs. heng i ran fast, if not i will have to say those stupid wishing words too. i will feel dam paiseh ok since it will be played to everyone.

anyway note to hewei: your blog you wrote sec1squad neh, we sec2 lerhs. and is not de-stress is to relieve stress and also not release stress like some others will write. i learnt this in school during english lesson today!

i am very full now,
or is it just an illusion?