《the curious incident of the dog in the night》

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• Christopher John Francis Boone
• Mrs. Shears
• Willington
• Siobhan 中文翻译 雪凡

虽然画质真的是渣画质，而且很长。但是舞台表现手法很特别，整个舞台主要是空荡荡，没有复杂的需要人工造的建筑或者餐桌之类。如果需要，用灯光或盒子或者人搭建过渡，虽然画质渣，但是相质量高渣画质也是值得的！

开场时候老师在那边朗诵，Christopher在小狗旁边，Christopher有点神经质，收到点点刺激就开始尖叫。

“2. It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. Shears’s house. Its eyes were closed. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream. But the dog was not running or asleep. The dog was dead. There was a garden fork sticking out of the dog. The points of the fork must have gone all the way through the dog and into the ground because the fork had not fallen over. I decided that the dog was probably killed with the fork because I could not see any other wounds in the dog and I do not think you would stick a garden fork into a dog after it had died for some other reason, like cancer, for example, or a road accident. But I could not be certain about this.

I went through Mrs. Shears’s gate, closing it behind me. I walked onto her lawn and knelt beside the dog. I put my hand on the muzzle of the dog. It was still warm.
The dog was called Wellington. It belonged to Mrs. Shears, who was our friend. She lived on the opposite side of the road, two houses to the left.

Wellington was a poodle. Not one of the small poodles that have hairstyles but a big poodle. It had curly black fur, but when you got close you could see that the skin underneath the fur was a very pale yellow, like chicken.

I stroked Wellington and wondered who had killed him, and why.

3. My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries of the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7,057.”

开头模仿一个很纠结的人说出来的口吻。一个人看到一个狗死了，身上插着一把叉子，就完全认为是叉子导致了的死亡。但是作者模仿Christopher的角度，描述了一大段。就凭这个开头，也让人看下去。

故事其实挺简单，Christopher在深夜发现小狗被杀，Mrs Shears认为是他杀的，警察来了，警察碰Christopher，他就开始反抗。警察认为袭警，就把他抓去了警察局。警察让他那些啊腕表，他拒绝，因为会不知道具体时间。问他家几岁，他很详细说出了几年几月几天。
父亲来了，和警察说抱歉，接Christopher回家。
我觉得这小说有点在于：

• 从一个特殊儿童的角度描写事物，就和平常人的叙述方式不太一样。通常被我们忽视的事物也会描写
  • 比如坐火车会数路边有多少只羊
  • 做的一些事情也比较特别，比如不知道怎么坐火车，下地铁捡老鼠，角色扮演成侦探解决问题
  • 成为父母亲矛盾的导火索，父亲对他的忍耐
  • 理解事物的方式事物太复杂就难以理解，对吵闹的忍耐程度，人太多就难以忍受，因为人太多在地铁中坐五个小时等待人少
  • 通常来说找火车站那么简单的事情根本不值得一提，但对他来说就有点难度
  • 老师和他的交流方式，人们的表情，章节的命名
  • 特殊的烦躁处理方式，数二的平方
  • 害怕的处理方式，躲起来
• 让语言更加充满童趣
• 用儿童思维去思考问题，就会去思考比如隐喻等
  • Christopher也是个隐喻
• 对人平常说话方式的质疑
  • 叫人安静安静多久
• 对为什么杀死一条狗的推理
• 我的行为问题
• 分析问题的特殊方式，当看到父亲藏起来的信，因为母亲写i的特殊方式让我发现了

如果我是Christopher的母亲，我也会觉得很烦躁，为一个动不动就尖叫的孩子。父亲真的好有耐心。