The curious incident of the dog in the night

time by MARK HADDON (Novel written in 2003)

Christopher Boone - Main protagonist (autism)

Ed Boone - Christopher's father (the one who killed the dog)
Judy - Christopher's mom
Siobhan - most trusted teacher of Christopher(helps Christopher to solve the mistery
Wellington - Dog of Mrs. Shears

CHRISTOPHER
- having a hard time socializing or with social interaction
- has autism spectrum syndrome (ASPERGER SYNDROME
- Good at math has more logic based skills
- Christopher John Francis Boone
- 15 year old boy
- He has a pet RAT named TOBY
- Struggles with communication and hates metaphors
- likes Sherlock Holmes
- Christopher copies Sherlock Holmes

- Ed said the Judy is already passed away due to heart attack

- Welling ton has been fatally speared with a garden fork
- Christopher wrote the book while investigating (TCIOADITNT)
- Christopher mother is in london with Mr. Shears
- The real reason why Ed killed Wellington is
- Ed and Mrs. Shears has intimate relationship with each other
- The reason why he killed wellington is because maybe when wellington was already out of the
picture Mrs. Shears will leave with it
- Ed use Wellington (para magkasama sila ni Mrs. Shears
- Christopher lost his trust to his father and went to London

ENDING
- Christopher moves in with his mother
- successfully complete his A level test in math
- Begin to reestablish trust with his father
SUBJECT
Family, honesty, and trust, and braving the unknown
The themes of being an outcast and discriminated

- the reason why it not focused on the subject autism is because christopher's Autism is just a
part of a story
- the main message of the story presents the idea that there different levels lies and that lies
affect the relationship

Three major features of world literature

1. Classic (written a long long time ago by authors that is still relevant up until today)
2. Masterpieces (something that is worth to read)
3. Windows to the world (specific text or literature provide lenses what is this specific text is all
about)

INFERNO is part of a Robert Langdon series written by DAN ROWN

INFERNO - the name of the virus

- We have to stories of INFERNO, Contemporary (yung inexplain ni ma'am nung meeting) and
the classic inferno by DANTE ALIGHIERI
- It was titled inferno because the virus created in the novel is base on novel of Dante Alieghieri
which is INFERNO

CHARACTERS
Robert Landon - main protagonist
Bertrand Zobrist - the one who created the virus
Elizabeth Sinskey - the director of WHO
Sienna Brooks - the one who helps Langdon to trace the virus

ROBERT LANGDON
- professor in Harvard wakes in the hospital with a head wound
- cannot remember anything (ang naalala nya lang nasa harvard sya nag tuturo tas nagising sya
na realize nya na nasa florence na sya)
BERTRAND ZOBRIST
- Genetic engineer
- advocate for a halt to humanity's growth due to out of control world population
- Dante's Fanatic he used Dante's poem as clues to the location and the purpose of the virus

- they're mission is to stop Zobrist from realising the virus that will kill one third of the population
- they're trying to stop the virus by being release by using the clues as the references to solve
Zobrist riddle
- Sienna Brooks tracked the virus to the city of ISTANBUL
- Sienna Brooks is Zobrist lover and disciple
- Sienna know what type of virus Zobrist had made
-In the actual novel by Dan Brown the virus was released
- Zobrist commited suicide (pagkatapos nyang irelease yung virus

MAIN SUBJECT: Over population

GENRE: Mystery and suspense
loopholes: mabilis kumalat yung virus
the virus was sprend easily

PLOT DEV: In media res

THE LAST SONG by NICHOLAS SPARK

CHARACTERS

VERONICA "RONNIE" MILER

- A rebellious
- 17 year old (protagonist)
- resents her parents for their messy DIVORCE
- she is annoyed because she is being forced to spend summer with her estranged father
- she hasn't spoken for her father in 3 YEARS
- she quit playing piano because of her dad even though she is talented
- Ronnie takes her parent divorce personally
and unable to address the negative feelings towards her father
- WILL and RONNIE begin to fall in love when his in AQUARIUM VOLUNTEER work
- as WILL and RONNIE relationship deepens, RONNIE also begin to reconcile with her father
and brother
- RONNIE begin to value forgiveness when she found out that her father has a STOMACH
CANCER
- Audition at JULLIARD

STEVE MILLER
- Ronnie's estranged (no longer close or affectionate) father. they used to share a passion for
piano and writing music
- has STOMACH CANCER

WILL BLAKELEE
- beach volleyball player
- surprised RONNIE that he will coming to NEW YORK and decided to transfer to COLUMBIA

JONAH MILLER - 10 year old brother of RONNIE

KIM - RONNIE'S mother
BLAZE - befriends Ronnie when she first arrives in WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, but JEALOUSY
and INSECURITYcause Blaze to betray this budding friendship

SUBJECT AND THEME

- Explores the value of FORGIVENESS and PERSONAL GROWTH
- this is also give awareness to the effect of DIVORCE to children

THE LOVELY BONES by ALICE SEBOLD

(kaya the lovely bones yung title kase yung ELBOW na lang ni Susie yung nakita)

CHARACTERS

SUSIE SALMON - (PENNSYLVANIA home)

- she was 14 years old when she died
- her dream is to become wild life photographer
- murdered in DECEMBER 6, 1973
- she travelled to purgatory after death
- she has to decide what’s more important to her: her love for her family, or
her vengeance against her killer
- If she wants her family to heal, Susie will have to forgive her killer’s actions and move on into
the afterlife.
- She is trying to send her dad ghostly messages and she must have succeeded because Jack
begins to suspect Mr. Harvey of Susie's murderer

RAY - SUSIE'S first and only love

JACK and ABEGAIL SALMON - SUSIE'S parents

MR. HARVEY
- Pedophile
- murdered and rape SUSIE
- Build underground shelter and he murdered and rape SUSIE there
- dreams of killing WOMEN and CHILDREN

JACK
- call LEN FENNERMAN with his suspicions about MR. HARVEY but they didn't find any
evidences

DECEMBER 9, the detective in charge , (LEN FENNERMAN) found SUSIE'S elbow and calls
Susie's parents

WHERE DID THE CRIME HAPPEN?

- In CORNFIELD

Susie touches Ruth Connors, a school friend and Ruth becomes obsessed with her.

SUBJECT: Rape, acceptance, and forgiveness

based on a real rape and murder of

a young girl in Norristown, Pennsylvania, who was kidnapped from her parents in the 1970s.
ALICE SEBOLD the author, was also a rape victim in the TUNNEL (kaya yung settings, kung
saan ni rape at pinatay si susie is sa underground basement kase base sya don sa TUNNEL)
CORALINE by Neil Gaiman

CHARACTERS
real mother & real father
other mother & other father (beldam)
Coraline Jones - has psychotic dissociative disorder

SETTING
House & Other house

SUBJECT
​bravery
​courage
​mental health

Lesson : Appreciate what you have

- based on a true story

- dark tale
- 3 years old coraline was being sexually abused by her father.
- buttons serves as a mask

THE EXIT 8 BIG TOP MALL AND VIDEO ARCADE by Katherine Applegate

CHARACTERS:

mack - owner of the mall

stella - younger elephant | confidante
ruby - older elephant
bob - dog
​julia - janitor's daughter
​ivan - gorilla : main protagonist : silverback (type of gorilla) means strength of leadership

- real ivan was held captive for 27 years

- real ivan died in atlanta 2012
- ivan (gorilla at the mall) feels isolated since he's the only gorilla in the mall
- ivan can understand basic human language
- ivan can draw
- he's only for human entertainment
- stella got foot infection
- reporters came and nagprotest kaya nakalaya 'yung mga animals.
- julia adopted bob
- before stella died from foot infection, ivan made a promise to stella to take care of ruby

SUBJECT:
​animal cruelty
​identity
​isolation

LIFE OF PI by Yann Martel

​ iscine Patel
P
​Raised hindu, then learned christianity and islam
​Pantheism (practices multiple religion)
​Subject : Faith, belief, survival
​Theme: one must never abandoned hope
​Conflict: Man vs. nature
​good at animal pathology
​1970's pi's family planned to fly to canada
​Tsimtsum (ship sinks at its 4th day)
​only 5 survivors ( pi, orangutan, hyena, tiger, and a zebra)
​hyena kills orangutan and zebra before the tiger eats the hyena
​Tiger (richard parker) bengal tiger 9 months
​blindness because of dehydration and starvation ( bc of imagination)
​carnivorous island richard parker helped Pi then richard run to the jungle
​Faith helped Pi to keep his sanity
​hyena - french cook
​zebra - sailor
​orangutan - mother