MC- The Curious Incident of the Blog in the Night-time

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time  has some of the most useful themes in my opinion in comparison to the other books read this year.  Yes, there have been great themes in books throughout this year, but how often does a person have to think about having too much control.  Although Handmaid's Tale  proved that, it is rare that I think about that theme on a daily bases.  However, the most important theme in this book is to tell the truth even though someone might not like it.  Everybody is told this from the first day of kindergarten to the last day of college but for some reason not many people seem to listen.  Everybody lies, and if someone says otherwise then they are lying. Most of the entire book's premise is about how Chris's dad lied to him about everything important in his life, especially his mother.  His lie ruined their relationship and changed their lives forever.  Although telling the truth about Chris's mother in...

For an AP level book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time  is written very simply.  The book is even scattered with numerous pictures which honestly make the book very easy to read.  This is the book that I read the fastest all year because of how simply it was written.  The reason why the book is so simple and actually quite random is because it is written by Chris.  OK, not actually.  It is really written by Mark Haddon but he wrote the book as if it is Chris's. One of the biggest plot points in this book is that Chris tries to write a murder mystery novel about the death of Mr. Wellington.  As it turns out, this book is his murder mystery book.  It has every aspect of one too.  The beginning starts with the crime, Chris tries to solve the crime, the murderer is figured out, and lastly the repercussions are faced.  OK, it may seem like a little bit of a stretch but there is hard evidence that it is Chris's novel. ...

To start, the title of this blog post and the ones posted after this all contain CIDNT before the real title of the post.  Why do you ask?  Well, the simple explanation is to distinguish which blog posts are about The Road and which ones are about The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time .  Plus, it gets very tiring after typing The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time  over and over again throughout key passages and now blog posts.  It's just a time saver for the reader and myself. At a first glance from reading the first few chapters of the book, the few characters that there are seem very troubled.  The main character, Christopher, has autism and has strange outlooks on his daily life and also life as a big picture.  This is not new to me in anyway.  A good majority of books read this year have had a troubled and odd main character who fights their way through the world.  A prime example of this is Milkman in Song of So...

To put it simply, yes.  Overall I found this book to be fairly simple and easy to follow when compared to some of the other AP books.  I found it very enjoyable because I could sit down without having to stress super hard over looking for literary devices and such.  Also, this was the first book this year where I was able to read it at night without falling asleep.  Most of the AP books are relatively dry and will put you to sleep in no time.  However, The Road's  fast paced reading style allowed for me to stay focused and not get lost in the chapters.  As a whole I found this novel to be pretty good, but the ending is where it got me. To me, the ending was just ok.  Yes, McCarthy was definitely trying to pull on my heart strings but I wouldn't let him.  Basically every death scene between a father and a son is sad, but for some reason this one was not that sad for me.  I don't know if it was because the characters themselves were...

After being completely done with the entire book, there are definitely some themes that jump out at me.  Although I had to make it through the horribly sad ending of The Man telling The Boy to carry on without him, it was at that moment where the biggest theme in my opinion was brought into it's full light.  When The Man was in the midst of dying, he tells The Boy "You have to carry the fire" (278).   The mention of carrying the fire has been brought up dozens of times throughout this novel, but it was at this moment where I fully understood it.   Carrying the fire is clearly not actually carrying a fire with you.  So, what is it?  Well, I have interpreted it as carrying your hope, morals, and will to carry on.  Especially in this insanely depressing setting of The Road, the will to carry on is extremely important.  There have been many times throughout the novel where both The Man and The Boy faced times where it seemed easi...

This blog post has been the one that I have looked forward to the least.  Deciding whether or not a book has AP merit seems difficult, especially for a high school student who has only read a handful of the esteemed books.  I don't work for college board, how would I know?  Well, after looking back to the past books read from this year, it is clear that you can gauge other books off of known AP books.  So, as I dug through the cobwebs to dust off my knowledge of Song of Solomon , Brave New World, and Handmaid's Tale  I determined that there was a clear checklist of criteria that is involved in determining a books AP merit. 1)  Does the reader have to read in between the lines to figure out important plot points. In every single novel read this year it is almost impossible to get the full experience of the book by just mindlessly reading the book.  If there is no time spent to critically analyse events, dialogue, descriptions, and bas...