The Microscope: Literary Luminary
Name: Ella
Book: The Curious incident of the dog in the nightime
Meeting Date: 3/17
Reading Assignment: 1-45 pages
Literary Luminary: Your job is to locate a few special sections or quotations in the text
for your group to talk over. The idea is to help people go back to some especially
interesting, powerful, funny, puzzling, or important sections of the reading and think about
them more carefully. Also look for literary devices and make connections to the six
elements of fiction (plot, flashback, foreshadowing, characterization, setting, point of
view, symbol, theme). As you decide which passages or paragraphs are worth going back to,
make a note why you picked each one and consider some plans for how they should be
shared. You can read passages aloud yourself, ask someone else to read them, have people
read as the different characters, or have people read them silently and then discuss.
Remember, the purpose is to suggest material for discussion.
Quote with page
Reason for Choosing
number
Discussion sparking
question about the
quote
“I didn’t like him touching He hit a police officer
me like this. And this is
because he was laying with
when I hit him” (8)
the dead dog so when the
police officer tried to move
him he hit him which I
thought was really strange
because you're taught at a
young age that you're not
supposed to hit police
officers or even talk back.
-
What made him do
that?
Was it just natural
instincts?
“The numbers that are left
are prime numbers.” (11)
Completely ignoring the
fact that he just got arrested
because he hit a police
officer and is focused on his
prime numbers.
He also made the chapters in
prime numbers instead of 1,
2, 3.
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“The word metaphor means
carrying something from
one place to another, and it
comes from the Greed
words METX (which
means from one place to
another…” (15)
Keeps telling definitions,
and how to do something
resulting in math or a word
he defines. Which is weird
because he is framed for
killing a dog and just got
arrested but is telling the
reader all these random
facts.
-
Is he insanely smart
and knows all this
stuff?
“He said ‘I have spoken to
your father and he says that
you didn’t mean to hit the
policeman. I didn't say
anything because this
wasn't a question. He said,
‘Did you mean to hit the
policeman? I said, ‘Yes.”
(17)
In this type of situation your
suppose to just say you
didn’t mean to and your
sorry, because his dad told
the policeman his son didn’t
mean to hit him so instead of
going with what his dad
said, he did the opposite and
if he just agreed he would
have gotten in less trouble
even though he didn’t really
get in any trouble.
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Why didn’t he get in
more trouble?
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Does he have ADHD
or something like
that?
Why isn’t he
concerned about
getting arrested and
just on all other
things?