Eating at your Friend's House

In front of you there is fresh, pile of cow dung on your plate. Your best friend's mother claims it is beef stroganoff, but no matter what it is you are going to gag when the first glob touches your tongue. The friend's mom is waiting to see you eat the first bite and tell her how wonderfully superb her cooking is. As you lift up your spoon you think what is it going to taste like? Hopefully not as bad as it looks. You shove a chunk down your throat. It didn't taste bad; it tasted horrible. With the sweetest voice she asks how it tastes. "It's really good." you reply, hoping she didn't see your face of revulsion.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Essay

People lie 3 times in every conversation they have. The question is why do we lie? People lie to protect themselves. Others times they lie to hurt someone. However in a family, often when someone tells a lie it is because they don't want to hurt someone they love . The problem with lying to someone we love  is that when the lie is discovered it often causes more hurt then the truth ever would. 

Often people lie to protect someone they love. In the book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time the father lied to his autistic son about  killing a dog and his mother abandoning him. He did this because he believed his son couldn't handle or understand the truth. In the movie The Last Song, the father lied to his children about his illness. He was diagnosed with cancer and feared that his children also wouldn't be able to understand or handle the truth that he is going to die. They didn't lie to them to be cruel. They did it because they loved their children and didn't want them to have the pain they were going through. In both situations, the fathers lied because they were have difficulty facing and dealing with the truth themselves. 

Although the fathers lied to protect their children out of love, when the children had found out the truth they were angry with their fathers. In the book, Christopher finds out about his father's lies and becomes angry. He feels hurt and betrayed and runs away from his father. In The Last Song, when the children found out that he kept the secret about him dying, they got angry with him. In both stories instead of making their relationships stronger it causes them to drift apart. Trust is the biggest part of a relationship and when there is a lie it breaks all trust.

It might be very hard to tell your family the truth, but when it comes to having a strong family you need to tell it. The truth is the best policy.

Character

Christopher is an autistic boy who doesn't like when people touch him or the colors yellow and brown. He likes animals and math. If he didn't have these little ticks about him there would be no story. He wouldn't have gone outside and hugged the dog if he didn't like animals, and if he didn't like being touched then he wouldn't have hit the cop. Christopher is a static character because he has these things about him that hasn't changed in the book. All that has changed about him is his thought of his dad being dangerous.                             

Point of View

The book is written in the perspective of Christopher and since he's autistic, he doesn't understand what people are saying. He also doesn't get emotions well, so he would misinterpret some of peoples actions. He believed that his father didn't tell him about his mother because it was for himself, but he actually did it for both of the them. He didn't Christopher to think it was all his fault that his mother left.

 Also, Christopher thinks that his dad is very dangerous after killing Wellington, but that was just an emotion. He got mad and thought a productive way to channel his anger was killing a dog but clearly it wasn't. Christopher had known this feeling when he hit the police officer because he got angry that he touched his shoulder.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

My prediction is that Mrs. Alexander was the murderer of the Wellington, because of how she acts around Christopher and the information she tells him. Hoodwinked is a movie telling an alternative story of Little Red Riding Hood and the animal that took all the recipes in the forest was the unsuspected bunny. Mrs. Alexander reminds me of the bunny because, like the bunny, she gives him information to forget about the case. She was the one to tell Christopher that his mom had an affair with Mr. Shears  and got him to think about his mother and not the murder. Also she wanted him to have tea and cookies during the case.