Lit. & Comp. “Nighttime Fires” pg. 587 “Nighttime Fires” “Nighttime Fires” is a narrative poem written by Regina Barreca. The poet uses powerful imagery which vividly illustrates the lasting impression made upon a girl whose father seeks satisfaction through witnessing the destruction caused by nighttime fires. The poem creates a picture in the reader’s mind of the father’s character as his grown child still remembers from when she was five years old. Although it is obvious that the
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Fires of Destruction (word count: 1‚245) In the poem “Nighttime Fires” the speaker of the poem is remembering the speaker father’s wild obsession with burning houses at night and how the speaker had to go with the father to these burning houses with the family. The father is a casualty of the rough economy and this anger toward his bad luck is the reason he loves seeing these macabre scenes. The speaker in “Nighttime Fires” vividly illustrates the lasting impression that the fires and his father’s
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The text “The curious incident of the dog in the Nighttime” was a fast paced book from the very beginning of the text. Every point immediately connected to another point. Mark Haddon‚ the author‚ made the whole text an interesting experience. There are many aspects that made the book very unique and very interesting. Many of these aspects include the usage of prime numbers as chapters and the spontaneous use of visual aid. Both elements allow the book to be very unique compared to traditional texts
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The poem Nighttime Fires by Regina Barecca explains the speaker’s complex view of her father. The speaker uses imagery to describe her father’s strange behaviours after losing his job. Figurative language is used strategically to explain the memories of this young girl’s strange adventures. The diction in this poem is also used very well helping us to understand why these nighttime fires left such a lasting impact on this grown woman from when she was only five years old. All of these things are
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Trust is a key theme in The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night-Time. Each of the main characters has issues of trust and honesty with each other. That’s why I believe that trust plays a huge role in the novel regarding to Christopher’s relationships. Christopher also learns that he can trust himself to achieve his goals. The three relationships that trust plays a vast role to Chris’ include his dad‚ Siobhan‚ and his mother. Even though trust plays differently in each of these relationships
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In the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime‚ by Mark Haddon‚ Christopher struggles with internal and external conflicts that do not help him grow. In the novel‚ Christopher is a boy who has autism. He lives with his dad‚ and one day he sees that his neighbor’s dog is dead. He decides to be a detective and solve the mystery of who killed the dog. He begins to write a book‚ but his dad finds and takes it from him. When he goes into his father’s room to find it‚ he finds letters from
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Draft In the novel‚ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime‚ a father and son struggle to repair a relationship broken by mutual distrust. In this novel‚ trust is broken in several situations. First‚ trust is broken when Christopher’s father hides his mom’s notes and admits he killed Wellington the dog. Trust is broken by Christopher when he runs off to London to live with his mom. Both Christopher and his father value their relationship with each other and when each of their trust is
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People with Aspergers typically are more interested in objects‚ like trains‚ than they are in people. Christopher Boone compares his mind to a film as Temple Grandin compares hers to a VCR tape. In the book A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime‚ Christopher Boone talk’s bout his memory like this “My memory is like a film. That is why I am really good at remembering things…And when people ask me to remember something I can simply press Rewind and Fast Forward and Pause like on a video recorder…”
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime definitely depicts acts of betrayal. In this novel‚ the main character Christopher is betrayed by his father in two main ways that affects his life immensely. The first thing that Christopher’s father does is lie to him about killing Wellington the dog. The second thing that he does is lie to Christopher about the fact that his mother was actually alive. Without the acts of betrayal in the novel‚ it would be dry and boring. The first act of betrayal
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mystery about his neighbor’s dead dog jump starts the detailed‚ brilliant writing from the perspective of a source that has no filter. As a result‚ several major themes are constructed. In Mark Haddon’s novel‚ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime‚ it is evident that Christopher’s personality is altered and shaped dramatically due to the themes of trust‚ limitation‚ and isolation. Christopher’s life is completely altered and allows the truth to have a significant impact on himself because
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