Reading Log  - Questions 5 and 17.

           

If I was the author of this book I would probably change the location of the story a bit. This is because I think that such a tremendously good and exciting book could at least have a few scenes in a more populated and bigger city. Overall, I think that the location of this book is good though. But when Christopher was doing his detective work about the murder of the dog, it would have given the plot some extra spice by reading about a big and bustling city .It would make you feel more like he was making it interesting. 

I think that the name Christopher is a good name for this book. I don’t feel that the name Christopher makes the book more special or interesting, but neither does it make it less. For me the name of a character is not so important in a book. I think that this is because there is usually nothing special with the character´s name. Also, I think that it could have been an improvement to the book by having Christopher meet his mom at the hospital and the author could have described how it was like at the hospital.

Where I am right now in the book, Christopher is being a detective, to try to figure out who killed the dog. First I think that he will go to other houses to see what they saw or heard and try find out what they know about the dreadful incident. After that he will probably start getting nosy and go to his prime suspect.

The fact that Christopher acts like a real detective, really gives spice to the story and also the way he thinks (since he is diagnosed with Asperger´s syndrome).

Right now Christopher´s prime suspect is the dogs owner´s husband! Later on he will try to find more proof that his prime suspect is the true criminal. He will probably accuse his suspect, but I have a bad feeling that he will be wrong and that his suspect will be calling the police because Christopher will refuse leave the husband´s property. If that happens it will be bad, because that will be his second time at the police station in a short period of time. His dad will come to pick him up from custody and I think that after two police incidents, Christopher will drop the investigation and just stay out of things, as his dad wants him to. I don’t think that he will ever figure out who did the deed, but at least his dad will hopefully be happy again after a long time of sadness.

By: Nicolai