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I honestly dont know . The diagrams just made it harder for me to understand him it was every time i got a little closer to understanding what he was thinking ione of his famous diagrams would pop up and I would be confused all over again. At first i thought htta it was for me to undertand him better but then I was like'' this didn't help me it made it worse!" Then I thought that he didi for people to see how diffrent and smart he was but if he wanted to do that then he would have written more about it

Sanassa Burnett wrote:

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I honestly dont know . The diagrams just made it harder for me to understand him it was every time i got a little closer to understanding what he was thinking ione of his famous diagrams would pop up and I would be confused all over again. At first i thought htta it was for me to undertand him better but then I was like'' this didn't help me it made it worse!" Then I thought that he didi for people to see how diffrent and smart he was but if he wanted to do that then he would have written more about it

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Maybe some of the examples and diagrams he used were meant to be confusing just to show how intelligent Christopher is for understanding them.

i think that he made them drawings and diagrams to show was he saying and that it hard what he is trying to say



i agree with of you guys beacuse he is tryign to shwe what he is saying and some of them you cant udersatnd what he is trying to say

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I think Mark Haddon includes the drawings and diagrams Christopher creates to help us get a better understanding of what is going on in his head. Since Christopher's mind is not like most of us Mark must have thought that this would help us get or imagine the picture Christopher sees or creates. In some cases this has been helpful. For instance when he talks about the constellation Orion. He shows you an image of the consellation then after he explained how it doesn't make sense that it looks like a hunter because you can join the dots in any way you wanted. It helps that he shows a picture of a dinosaur using those same stars because you can actually see how he moved the lines around and made it what he wanted it to be. This should make you think about the constellations and what people say they are shaped like because it really depends on how you see things.

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nyeema
sorry i forgot my name but i wrote that

i couldnt have explained it better my self you are right because christopher wasnt dumd he just behaved differently, i also agree because i could understand him even better

i posted that last comment to nyeema i just forgot to put my name on it

Anonymous wrote:

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I think the author includes the diagrams to show what is going on inside Christopher's head. Also, I think since Christopher is so intelligent, he knows a lot of things that the readers might not so the diagrams are to explain things as well.

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I agree because although he had problems he was still smart

I agree with you because even though he has a disability his mind is very thorough.

I think Mark Haddon includes the drawings because it makes us snderstand more. For example, onpage 130 the picture explained what he did."But,then i start thinking about going home agan,or hiding in the garden every night.....".In the picture it explains all of the things he says.That why I think he put the pohoto's in.

Anonymous wrote:

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I think the author includes the diagrams to show what is going on inside Christopher's head. Also, I think since Christopher is so intelligent, he knows a lot of things that the readers might not so the diagrams are to explain things as well.

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i agree to a certain extent i agree that christopher thinks differently that most people but to say that would meant that you were undermining mark Haddon's ability to EXPRESS WHAT CHRISTOPHER AND ON TOP OF THAT WHENEVER CHRISTOPHER WAS FEELING SOMETHING HE SAID IT OUT LOUD AND THAT MAKES IT PRETTY HARD NOT TO UNDERSTAND HIM

lismeldy rosario wrote:

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I think that Mark Haddon includes the drawings and the diagrams to show Christophers way of thinking because since christopher had a problem mentally it shows that his mind is very creative through out his disability. An example of this is on page 189 were he made a diagram mentally on how he was going to get to his moms house, "and this was my route''.

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I don't think he has a mental disability how could he i can guarantee you that you couldn't solve a single one one those problems that he does for fun

Sanassa Burnett wrote:

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I honestly dont know . The diagrams just made it harder for me to understand him it was every time i got a little closer to understanding what he was thinking ione of his famous diagrams would pop up and I would be confused all over again. At first i thought htta it was for me to undertand him better but then I was like'' this didn't help me it made it worse!" Then I thought that he didi for people to see how diffrent and smart he was but if he wanted to do that then he would have written more about it

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I totally agree with sanassa. Some of the diagrams confused me but others made me actually understand his prspective and his ways of doing things.

Devon wrote:

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i dont know

to me its like they are just their, they make it harder for me to read the book.. they conffuse me because they just pop up and i dont really understand it

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I sorta agree with devon because some diagrams made the book a little more confusing but others made me see how a person like Mark Haddon with autism sees the world.

kierra hines wrote:

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Diamond Webb wrote:

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Mark Haddon includes these diagrams and drawings Christopher creates because he wants the reader to understand everything that goes on in Christopher's head. There are many diagrams you would'nt be able to work out if you did'nt see them visually.For example on page 146 it states,''And the math problems that i did was called Conway's Soldiers you have a chess board that continues infinitely in all directions and every square below a horizontal line has a colored tile on it like this....''Without the diagram you basically dont have one clue as to what he is talking about.

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I agree with diamond 100%. He just wants us to see how a person with autism would see things in the world and how different it is from the way we see things in the world.

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He had included them because he wanted us to understand it more and see what he had see and he wanted us to see how he sees things in the world.

kierra hines wrote:

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Diamond Webb wrote:

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Mark Haddon includes these diagrams and drawings Christopher creates because he wants the reader to understand everything that goes on in Christopher's head. There are many diagrams you would'nt be able to work out if you did'nt see them visually.For example on page 146 it states,''And the math problems that i did was called Conway's Soldiers you have a chess board that continues infinitely in all directions and every square below a horizontal line has a colored tile on it like this....''Without the diagram you basically dont have one clue as to what he is talking about.

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I agree with diamond 100%. He just wants us to see how a person with autism would see things in the world and how different it is from the way we see things in the world.

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i agree with both of you because it was diffrent than how we see things

kierra hines wrote:

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In my opinion, Mark Haddon includes drawings to share the way in which he sees things in life.Some of the drawings really confused me as where others actually made me understand his perspective of things. For example, on page 11 the diagram is showing how he knows all of the prime numbers and how he comes to figure them out. This diagram I actually understand bacause prime numbers cant go into any other number except itself and 1. Thsi diagram I totally understood.

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i agree some pictures were easy to understand others i didnt understand

kierra hines wrote:

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Devon wrote:

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i dont know

to me its like they are just their, they make it harder for me to read the book.. they conffuse me because they just pop up and i dont really understand it

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I sorta agree with devon because some diagrams made the book a little more confusing but others made me see how a person like Mark Haddon with autism sees the world.

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I sorta agree too ,some of them just made it harder for me to understand what was going on ,but some of them were on fact even more helpful .

corey wrote:

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I think that the authour included these diagrams because Christopher explains things scientifically. So the diagrams are used to explain what he means in a way that we can understand.

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I dissagree because somepeople don't understand what he means. Like when he talks about seeing the stars at angles the diagrams helped me understand more.

Anonymous wrote:

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I think the author includes the diagrams to show what is going on inside Christopher's head. Also, I think since Christopher is so intelligent, he knows a lot of things that the readers might not so the diagrams are to explain things as well.

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i agree with this person

kierra hines wrote:

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In my opinion, Mark Haddon includes drawings to share the way in which he sees things in life.Some of the drawings really confused me as where others actually made me understand his perspective of things. For example, on page 11 the diagram is showing how he knows all of the prime numbers and how he comes to figure them out. This diagram I actually understand bacause prime numbers cant go into any other number except itself and 1. Thsi diagram I totally understood.

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i agree with kierra

corey wrote:
I think that the authour included these diagrams because Christopher explains things scientifically. So the diagrams are used to explain what he means in a way that we can understand.

I agree with Corey because Christopher did have a way of being scientific or to use a form of logic to all his problems. I think without the diagrams we as readers would have a harder time trying to understand what Christopher meant without a visusal aid.

kierra hines wrote:
In my opinion, Mark Haddon includes drawings to share the way in which he sees things in life.Some of the drawings really confused me as where others actually made me understand his perspective of things. For example, on page 11 the diagram is showing how he knows all of the prime numbers and how he comes to figure them out. This diagram I actually understand bacause prime numbers cant go into any other number except itself and 1. Thsi diagram I totally understood.

I agree with Kierra because the diagrams did help me as well understand Christopher as a chracter dealing with autism and how he solve problems in his way. Like the prime number diagram on page 11. The diagrams also showed me what desions Christopher was leanning towards like on page 130-131. Christopher was up against a rock in a hard place on where to go the diagram had a web of opions on page 130. In the second diagram on page 131 he finalizes his choice on the same mental web by crossing out all the others. Finale choice:
"Going to London to live with Mother."(Haddon 131)

I think he put the diagrams to give us a visual picture of what is going on in his head
other then that i honestly dont know why he did that. It is very unclear to me .

I think that the author added the drawings and diagrams that christopher made to show that he is very intellegent in his own way and to show what he is thinking about..