Unseen passage

(i) What is your impression of the woman in black? Support your answer with evidence from the text. [200-300 words]

After reading the passage, I felt something suspicious about the woman in black who wasn’t holding a prayer book. People attending a funeral should have a prayer booklet with them to pray for the decease but the woman in black doesn’t have one. Another reason was because she stood several rows behind quietly instead of coming closer to the decease. Therefore, I felt something suspicious about her.

My impression of the woman in black’s appearance is that she has a very old, ill and scary look which is horrible and unsightly. I say this because the description in the passage said that she was “extremely pale” and “the thinnest layer of flesh was tautly stretched and strained across the bones, so that it gleamed with a curious blue-white sheen.” These reflect that she looks very old and ill. The passage also said that her eyes seemed sunken back into her head which can cause terrible wasting that she has, and such ravages of the flesh which were generally considered to be incurable. These also reflect that the woman in black has a scary and ill look and she may die anytime. According to the passage, the author could scarcely bare to look at her shows that her look is quite horrible and unsightly.

I felt that the woman in black is very old fashion and out of date because she is in a style of full mourning that had rather gone out of fashion with a bonnet-type hat covering her head and shaded her face. These clothes would only be wearing in court circles on the most formal of occasions. Therefore I think she may exist very long ago which let me come to my next conclusion. I think the woman in black may be a ghost or a spirit because Mr. Jerome did not see her at all while only the author saw her.

However, the woman is very pitiful because even though she looks like she was perhaps only a short time away from her own death, but she still could drag herself to the funeral of another. The author even thought of escorting her back.

In conclusion, my impression of the woman in black is that there’s something suspicious about her; she has a very old, ill and scary look which is horrible and unsightly with very old fashion and out of date clothes; and she may be a ghost or a spirit but is very pitiful.

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The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time [Chapter 2 - 53]

What have you learnt about Christopher

Boone in The Curious Incident

of the Dog in the Night-Time so far?

Christopher John Francis Boone is his full name and he is at the age of 15 yeas old. Aperger's Syndrome is an illness that he has which brought to him many difficulties and disadvantages for him. The chapters in this book is by prime numbers because he loves prime numbers which are like life to him. He likes facts because he finds that it is something you can work out in your head. (but he isn't aware that his capacity to understand the way the universe works is bigger than the average person)
Mrs Shears is his neighbour and her poodle-----Wellington-----was murdered.
He likes the police because they are in uniforms and numbers.
He is a very observant boy as well. Everything he decribes in this story is very detailed (accountance with the policeman & policewoman, you can roughly figure out how they look like through Christopher's describtions).
He can be violent at times when he's upset or angry. (E.g. tearing the piece of paper with the different pictures of faces; hitting the policeman who touch him)

Things in his pocket:

1. A Swiss Army Knife with 13 attachments including a wire-stripper and a saw and a toothpick and tweezers.
2. A piece of string.
3. A piece of a wooden puzzle.
4. 3 pellet s of rat food for Toby, my rat.
5. £1.47 (this is made up of a £1coin, a 20p coin, two 10p coins, a 5p coin and a 2p coin).
6. A red paper clip.
7. A keyfor the front door.

Christopher claims that there will be no jokes in this book because he can't understand them.
Two things that makes him confused are that people who talks without using words (non-verbal communication) and people who often talk using metaphors which he thinks are lies.

I've known of two ways he uses to express to different feelings:

1. He made groaning noises when there is too much information going into his head from the outside world;
2. He and his father spread their fingers out in a fan and placed it together such that their fingers and thumb touches each other. This is a way Christopher knows that his father loves him instead of hugging which Christopher dislikes.

He is very curious and wants to find out how Wellington was murdered.
Christopher doesn't respond to what people say unless it's a question (he doesn't understand that there's situations when he can reply to what someone say even though it isn't a question).
He neither tell lies nor like lies because it makes him feel shaky and scared.
Being in a nice order which was to be logical, Christopher also likes that, thus he has Good Days (represented by red cars) and Bad Days (represented by yellow cars).

Upon knowing about his mother's death, he didn't respond emotionally, instead he became curious and made logical conclusions about his mother's death.

to be continued...