The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time Speach
Good afternoon All of you non normal human beings. This afternoon I will be auguring my point on why I think that there is no such thing as normal when it comes to human beings.
We’re 7 million people sharing the earth. But how many are considered “normal”? Can a little thing as being born with one finger less, make you the purple sheep in the classroom? Is it even possible to be normal? One definition of “normal” is the average or typical. So there are some characteristics of human beings that you can take as an average. For instance, the average weight and height, average IQ and the average number of each organ (Two kidneys, one heart, 10 toes etc). Normal is considered the average person goes to school for several years, works any kind of job as an adult, falls in a relationship with a member of the opposite sex and joins some form of organized religion.That doesn’t mean that those who don’t do these things are wrong, they just don’t follow the norms of human society. There is no such thing as normal. In fact what the hell is normal??
Christopher Boone is a 15 year old boy with autism. He is the narrator of the novel and the main character. He is a super duper math wiz but ON ONE LEVEL he is totally clueless, unaware of things that to most people would be impossible to ignore (for example, his mother Judy is having an affair with Mr shears the next door neighbour) But on another level he is so aware of the little things in life (for example he explains that Mr jeavons smells like soap and wears brown shoes that have approximately 60 tiny circular holes in each of them)
He comes across really sweet, showing affection for some people and animals. But he also pulls a knife on quite a few people, and is quite ready to pull it on his own dad for killing Mr and Mrs Shear’s dog wellington. In the novel He unexpectedly shows up at his mother's house in London, after not seeing her for two years. She's forced to put everything in her life on hold to take care of
We’re 7 million people sharing the earth. But how many are considered “normal”? Can a little thing as being born with one finger less, make you the purple sheep in the classroom? Is it even possible to be normal? One definition of “normal” is the average or typical. So there are some characteristics of human beings that you can take as an average. For instance, the average weight and height, average IQ and the average number of each organ (Two kidneys, one heart, 10 toes etc). Normal is considered the average person goes to school for several years, works any kind of job as an adult, falls in a relationship with a member of the opposite sex and joins some form of organized religion.That doesn’t mean that those who don’t do these things are wrong, they just don’t follow the norms of human society. There is no such thing as normal. In fact what the hell is normal??
Christopher Boone is a 15 year old boy with autism. He is the narrator of the novel and the main character. He is a super duper math wiz but ON ONE LEVEL he is totally clueless, unaware of things that to most people would be impossible to ignore (for example, his mother Judy is having an affair with Mr shears the next door neighbour) But on another level he is so aware of the little things in life (for example he explains that Mr jeavons smells like soap and wears brown shoes that have approximately 60 tiny circular holes in each of them)
He comes across really sweet, showing affection for some people and animals. But he also pulls a knife on quite a few people, and is quite ready to pull it on his own dad for killing Mr and Mrs Shear’s dog wellington. In the novel He unexpectedly shows up at his mother's house in London, after not seeing her for two years. She's forced to put everything in her life on hold to take care of