https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy Quote Analysis en-us 2019-05-02 17:36:17 UTC 2024-04-16 20:52:10 UTC hello@padlet.com https://imgglb.padletcdn.com/v13/image?t=g_auto&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.net%2Ficons%2Fpng%2F1f4da.png ava_kusek https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/356342764 "It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty."  ]]> 2019-05-02 18:12:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/356342764 ava_kusek https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/356343461 "Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away." ]]> 2019-05-02 18:14:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/356343461 ava_kusek https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/356343667 "His face was drawn but the curtains were real." ]]> 2019-05-02 18:14:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/356343667 ava_kusek https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/356346421 Christopher likes white noise because it blocks out the sound of other things happening in the world. It allows him to concentrate. The noise is peaceful. Having some sound allows him to feel connected to the world, because he knows that by hearing the sound, he exists in the world.]]> 2019-05-02 18:20:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/356346421 ava_kusek https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/356346605 Christopher chooses to give his chapters prime numbers because he likes them: they mean something to him. He does not choose prime numbers because they have significance for someone else, like his name meaning carrying Christ. Also like him, prime numbers do not fit in with a typical or easy pattern - they are difficult to identify and they are a rule unto no one.]]> 2019-05-02 18:20:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/356346605 ava_kusek https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/356346660 This is a joke made by Christopher's father that Christopher repeats to us. Using this example as a blueprint for jokes, Christopher tells us that there won't be any jokes in his novel, at least of this sort. This joke is exactly the sort of slippery sentence that Christopher finds difficult to fathom. Although he understands that the joke works because of the three different meanings of drawn, he does not understand the logic of it, and of course the point is that there is no logic to it: why would a direct comparison be made between a face and curtains? What is exposed here is not that Christopher is incapable of thinking like us and understanding a joke, but rather that he sees through the transparency of the joke and realizes that the pun does not make up for the fact that the sentence itself is essentially nonsense.]]> 2019-05-02 18:21:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/356346660 ava_kusek https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/356347591 "Mother was a small person who smelt nice." ]]> 2019-05-02 18:23:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/356347591 ava_kusek https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/356348855 "The dog was dead. There was a garden fork sticking out of the dog." ]]> 2019-05-02 18:25:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/356348855 ava_kusek https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/356349148 Although Christopher thinks his mother is dead, he does not show much emotion about it. When Christopher recollects the day he found out his mother had died, he never describes how he felt - he is simply very practical about what might have caused her heart attack and what sort of a heart attack it was. It is quite significant therefore that his description of her includes his own personal appreciation of her smell, making this description quite moving.]]> 2019-05-02 18:26:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/356349148 ava_kusek https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/356349371 Christopher has found his neighbor's dog lying dead in her yard. It is clear to him that someone has purposefully killed the dog and he is curious as to who killed him and why. At first the dog's owner, Mrs. Shears, thinks he killed the dog. After this misunderstanding is cleared up, Christopher decides, with the help of his teacher's aide, Siobhan, to write a book about the dog's death. This one incident is the impetus for a series of life changing events for Christopher and his family. ]]> 2019-05-02 18:26:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/356349371 ava_kusek https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/361048226 2019-05-17 03:15:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/361048226 ava_kusek https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/361050204 Dogs death]]> 2019-05-17 03:26:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/361050204 ava_kusek https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/361052096 As mentioned in the quote 1 analysis]]> 2019-05-17 03:38:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ava_kusek/1egcones76fy/wish/361052096