Post 4: My Favorite Character so far

 So far in my Journey I've seen Christopher, Jack, and Ray, and even though they are all great,my favorite is a very minor one from Room. My favorite character is Leo from Room who is Jack's step-grandfather, who he nicknames Steppa. Leo is a stranger to both Jack and his mother, neither have seen them in their life. He rightfully gives them space and kind of slowly eases in to talk to Jack. He just likes to relax and sit in his man-cave while watching some TV, like every typical grandpa does. He of everyone in the family, gets Jack closer to  society and Jack's family, when he isn't even biologically related. I think the thing that Jack likes most about Leo is that, he is kind of distant. He doesn't really touch Jack or is around him all that much, but when he is he always does something to help him become more normal. When Jack starts crying because he crushed the Lego building, Leo shows him its not a big deal by breaking his own Lego car, which he was playing with, showing Jack the stuff you can do with them. This minor event kind of helps Jack grow up a little bit, he won't take things as seriously as he has been doing. In the Room, he was probably always trying to save his things because he only got small amount of stuff every Sunday, but now that he was outside, he didn't have to do that any more and Leo showed him that. The main reason I like Leo though, is he just seems like a real grandpa, or even friend. Leo reminds me of every good Grandpa from every movie or commercial. He relaxed, kind, and smart, I bet he probably has some good stories from "his time" too.

Post 1: Dog in the night-time

           I give The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time a 7.5/10. The book was very well written and detailed, but sometimes got a little too detailed where it was kind of weird. I like the aspect of having an autistic person being the main character. It is a very unique way to word a story. He just describes what he can see and what is logical. The story really keeps you on your toes, with twists that you don’t really expect to happen, it goes from an investigation of a dead dog to unveiling a whole network of things he thought to be true. The story in theory seems a little dull or boring, an autistic kid tries to figure out who killed his neighbor’s dog, but the author executes it very well. He brings in believable events to make the story interesting. I like the dad the best in the story, sometimes he loses his temper, but not very often. He seems like a typical father figure, one who always wants the best for his kid and to keep him happy, but sometimes loses his cool and reacts in a bad manner. It was probably difficult to have to single handedly take care of Christopher for so many years, without having this sort of thing happen before. Even though he kind of let Christopher get all the way to London from home, he kind of messed up on that one.

Even though the book is really good and really well written. Sometimes it gets a little slow. Chris gets to detailed into his daily life which happens to be very boring. He starts rambling on about math and does a ton of problems in his head, which gets a little old. We kind of have to wait a while for Chris adventure which is the most exciting part of the book. But once it comes up it the story really ramps up in place, questions answered, adventures to be had, it is really the starting point of the  book for me.