Curious Dog

"you seem very upset about this," he said.

He was asking to many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory where uncle terry lives. The factory is a bakery and he operates the slicing machines. And sometimes a slicer is not working fast enough but bread keeps coming and there is a blockage. I sometimes think of my mind as a machine, but not always as a bread slicing machine. It makes it easier to explain to other people what is going on inside it(67)."

I picked this passage because the narrator of this book obviously functions mentally very differently most people, and this passage does a good job of showing how his mind works. He seems to get confused easily and looks at things differently, he looks at things some what numerically. He also does not seem to understand simple emotions given by people around him, he is unable to understand why certain actions evoke these emotions. Because this is a murder mystery, and is some what of a puzzle, we need to be able to interpret correctly all of the information that is given to us, and sense all of the information and clues in this book will be coming from Christopher John Francis Boone, the narrator, we must understand how his mind works.