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

In my last blog post about "Why AP?" for The Road,  I created a basic checklist for determining if a book meets the College Board's standard.  However, I believe that The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time  does not entirely meet that checklist, but it is still AP.  My biggest reason for it not fitting into the checklist is because of how unique this book is in comparison to others.  All other novels read this year have been very complicated and pretty hard to read/follow.  This book was extremely easy to read because of it's style.  It is an AP level book with pictures scattered on almost every page.  However, I believe it still is an AP level book because of certain aspects involved that stem deeper than the writing style. The first aspect is the journey that Chris undergoes.  While there is a psychological journey he goes through, I am really talking about his physical journey from moving to his father to his mother.  Chr...

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...