It was almost a perfect cube, 2 metres long by 2 metres wide by 2 metres high. It contained approximately 8 cubic metres of air....(p.17)
This is the beginning of one of Christopher's descriptions. He likes order, he understands clear messages and images, he describes everything in detail and sometimes becomes "annoying", as one of my students said.
CAN YOU FIND OTHER PASSAGES IN THE BOOK WHERE HE DOES THE SAME?
AFTER YOU HAVE FOUND ONE, TELL US THE BEGINNING AND THE PAGE IN THE BOOK.
CAN YOU WRITE A TEXT PUTTING YOURSELF IN CHRISTOPHER'S SHOES? (Christopher cannot put himself in someone else's shoes.)
IT MIGHT BE FUN!!
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Page 96....For example I could rewind to 4th of July 1992 when I was 9 years old, which was a Saturday, and we were on holiday in Cornwall and in the afternoon we were on the beach in a place called Polperro....
Page 84....And he said, ´What`s 251 times 864. And I thougt about this an i said, 216,864. Because it was really easy sum because you just multiply 864 x 1000which is 864,000. Then you divide it by 4 which is 216,000 and that`s 250 x 864. Then you just add another 864 on to it to get 251 x 864. An that is 216,864.
I find the second one very interesting because I also love Maths and playing with numbers can be a lots of fun! neža*
This one is hard but i will try to do it :)...
I will write something like i would be Christopher and i hope i will be good at.
Here it goes:
Yesterday was Friday. I was sitting with my Father in a Berni Inn. The Berni Inn is my favourite Inn. I like it because i can choose what i am going to have. I don't eat anything that is brown or yellow because I don't like that colours. But i like the red one. I like it. Red cars in the road mean it is going to be a Super day so I like it very much. But i hate yellow and brown.
I ordered a green vegetable so i did not order yellow pepper but i did order the red pepper. I didn't order beans but i did order the salat witout beans. I don't like different types of food touching each other so I order to bring everything at its one plate. So they did. They brought my salat in a dish or i should say bowl because it looked more like bowl than a dish. It was more deep and not so ''dishy''. Than after five minutes and 55 seconds they brought me a plate with a fried potato and hot dog. I was so relief when i so that potato and hot dog aren't touching each other. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to eat.
After 10 minutes and 33 seconds i was ready to start eating. I had my bowl of salat at the left and my plate right in front of me. Everything was symmetrical. And on the right there was a cutlery in rihgt order:
1. knife
2. fork
3. spork(which i didn't need)
I looked at the Father and he was already eating. I took a fork in my hand and then i saw a 2*2 mm large stain. I started screaming. I couldn't eat...
Neža, I also hope you are good at mathematics. I do not remember your grades. Yes!! That is what I wanted you to look for. I think that if you look at these scientific descriptions from another perspective, you can learn something. Maybe we just don't notice so many things if we are not observing them.....but on the other hand, the life would be really complicated if we analysed every step and thought.
HAVE A NICE WEEKEND!
I'm glad you have chosen this task. I got the idea the other day when I was driving to school....... I was sitting in my car which is green, but only on the outside, and not so new anymore. I could see trees and houses on both sides of the road, and it was nice because it was raining, and not many people were on the streets. The raindrops on the windscreen were small and the wipers moved every four seconds. There was an area on the windscreen which was not wipped and this made me wonder about how many raindrops fall on the earth every second....I think I know how to calculate this......
ALENKA I LIKE YOUR COMPOSITION VERY MUCH! YOU REALLY SOUND LIKE CHRISTOPHER!!
page 4 - "I had been hugging the dog for 4 minutes when I heard screaming. I looked up and saw Mrs Shears running towards me from the patio. She was wearing pyjamas and a housecoat. Her toenails were painted bright pink and she had no shoes on."
page 204 - "And, for example, some people say how can an eye happen by accident? Because an eye has to evolve from something else very like an eye and it doesn't just happen because of genetic mistake, and what is the use of half an eye? But half an eye is very useful, because half an eye means that an animal can see half of an animal that wants to eat it and get out of the way, and it will eat the animal that only has a third of an eye or 49% of an eye instead because it hasn't got out of the way quick enough, and the animal that is eaten won't have babies because it is dead.
About my similarity with C.: we both like to complicate, but I still don't complicate as much as he does. Becouse if I would be complicating like he does, I would be a very complicated person, which I am not. This is very complicated, but that is how it is.
:) just kidding!!
By By by Kaja :)
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