Wednesday, August 18, 2010
2 Quotes from Curious Incident
Please list and write 2 quotations that you think characterize Christopher Boone: one should be direct; the other should be indirect. If you need help, then remember our Prezi/lecture- which I've posted under Fresh Links on my web page- from today. Click on "comment," list and write your quotes (remember to end with page number in book), and leave your initials at the end. **If you see a quotation that has been used and posted before yours, then you cannot use it**. Thank you!
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Indirect:
ReplyDelete"I find people confusing." pg. 14
Direct:
"I was nervous." pg 59
H.N.
indirect: "Don't Feel shame about it, because mother is dead" Pg. 75
ReplyDeletedirect: "to be an astronaut you have to be intelligent, and i am intelligent".
Pg. 50
P.M
Indirect: "So I got out my Swiss Army knife and I flicked out the saw blade." pg. 137
ReplyDeleteDirect: "I screamed." pg. 159
JL
direct: "I do not tell lies." pg.19
ReplyDeleteindirect: "I went away." pg.54
Direct: "I used to have lots of behavioral problems, but I don't have so many now because I'm more grown up and can take decisions by myself, and can do things on my own like going out of the house and buying things at the shop at the end of the road." Page 27
ReplyDeleteIndirect:"I told you to keep your nose out of other people's business." (28)
MLS
DIRECT: "i do not like people shouting at me. it makes me scared that they are going to hit me or touch me and i do not know what is going to happen."
ReplyDeletep.4
INDIRECT:"she stood in front of me and pointed her finger at my face and said 'if you ever do that again i swear to God, Christopher, i ove you but...i dont know what i'd do'"
p.204
1) "I replied, 'I am 15 years and 3 months and 2 days.'" Page 6
ReplyDelete2) "And Julie said to Mother and Father that I would always find this very difficult." Page 116
C.J.
1. "I know all the countries of the world and their capital citites and ever prime number up to 7,057."Page 2
ReplyDelete2. "I do not tell lies." Page 19
R.H.
Direct: "I did not kill the dog." Page 4
ReplyDeleteIndirect: "You seem very upset about this." Page 4
M.M
Direct: "I don't like this." p. 32
ReplyDeleteIndirect: "...now I am going to go back to the fact that it was a Good Day." p. 26
A.B.
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ReplyDeleteDirect:"I cannot tell jokes because i do not understand them" page 8
ReplyDeleteIndirect: "...the children from down the road see us in the street when we are getting off the bus and they shout, 'Special Needs! Special Needs!'" page 44
HL
Indirect: "Chapters in books are usually given the cardinal numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and so on. But I have decided to give my chapters prime numbers 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13 and so on because I like prime numbers." page 11
ReplyDeleteDirect: "I decided that I was going to fund out who killed Wellington even though Father had told me to stay out of other people's business." page 28
KB
Speak: "There is no point in looking for my ex-friends. Our clan, the Plain Janes, has splintered and the pieces are being absorbed by rival factions."
ReplyDeleteCurious: "And then I thought that i had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head."