The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Chapter 229 Quotes
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Chapter 229 Quotes
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Quote 1
And the next morning I looked out of the window in the dining room to count the cars in the street to see whether it was going to be a Quite Good Day or a Good Day or a Super Good Day or a Black Day, but it wasn't like being on the bus to school because you could look out of the window for as long as you wanted and see as many cars as you wanted and I looked out of the window for three hours and I saw 5 red cars in a row and 4 yellow cars in a row which meant it was both a Good Day and a Black Day so the system meant it was both a Good Day and a Black Day so the system didn't work any more. (229.43)
Wow, this is a big moment. Christopher has been totally removed from all of the structure and routines that he had back in Swindon. Now, super far away in London, he looks out at the world and sees that the rules he has placed upon things (in order to order them, you might say) don't work anymore, and all along only existed in his own mind.
Quote 2
And eventually there is no one left in the world except people who don't look at other people's faces and who don't know what these pictures mean [...] (229.5)
This is probably our first indication that Christopher feels some sense of kinship with other people who have social disorders, and some resentment about being different. In the world he describes, no one would have identities at all, outside of what they think of themselves.