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

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Laguna University

Mark Haddon

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This document explains how literary works become classics, focusing on their enduring relevance and widespread appeal. It highlights the qualities that make certain literary works masterpieces, such as their impact on readers and the variety of global viewpoints. The extract gives insight into the book "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" by exploring different definitions of people and how we see them.

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They are classics – Most literary works become classics because they have been tested over time and remains among the shelves of today’s libraries. These stories, mostly novels, become well known across the globe, and although written a long time ago, are still being read in the present day. To beco...

They are classics – Most literary works become classics because they have been tested over time and remains among the shelves of today’s libraries. These stories, mostly novels, become well known across the globe, and although written a long time ago, are still being read in the present day. To become a classic, a literary work must be very substantial and must tackle issues which are relevant across generations. They are masterpieces – Considering the broadness of the scope of World Literature, a literary piece would find it hard to attract a spotlight in the world arena. Thus, if a literary work becomes known, it is already considered as a masterpiece because it has caught the attention of a wide range of readers. They are windows to the world – Literary works of the world features a display of historical artefacts, cultural information, and general knowledge that cover issues from different regions. As mentioned, reading foreign literary works gives its readers an insight of how the world goes about outside the happenings in the Philippines. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon I find people confusing. This is for two main reasons. The first main reason is that people do a lot of talking without using any words. Siobhan says that if you raise one eyebrow it can mean lots of different things. It can mean "I want to do sex with you" and it can also mean "I think that what you just said was very stupid." Siobhan also says that if you close your mouth and breathe out loudly through your nose, it can mean that you are relaxed, or that you are bored, or that you are angry, and it all depends on how much air comes out of your nose and how fast and what shape your mouth is when you do it and how you are sitting and what you said just before and hundreds of other things which are too complicated to work out in a few seconds. The second main reason is that people often talk using metaphors. These are examples of metaphors I laughed my socks off. He was the apple of her eye. They had a skeleton in the cupboard. We had a real pig of a day. The dog was stone dead. The word metaphor means carrying something from one place to another, and it comes from the Greek words (which means from one place to another) and (which means to carry), and it is when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn't. This means that the word metaphor is a metaphor. I think it should be called a lie because a pig is not like a day and people do not have skeletons in their cupboards. And when I try and make a picture of the phrase in my head it just confuses me because imagining an apple in someone's eye doesn't have anything to do with liking someone a lot and it makes you forget what the person was talking about. My name is a metaphor. It means carrying Christ and it comes from the Greek word (which means Jesus Christ) and it was the name given to St. Christopher because he carried Jesus Christ across a river. This makes you wonder what he was called before he carried Christ across the river. But he wasn't called anything because this is an apocryphal story, which means that it is a lie, too. Mother used to say that it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.

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