Never Mind the Bollocks

"Don’t give me that bollocks you little sh*t. You knew exactly what you were bloody doing. I've read the book, remember" (Haddon 81). In the Novel The Curious Dog in the Night-Time written by Mark Haddon many suspenseful quotes by both Christopher and his father like the one above will keep the readers mind open to all of the different topics and actions available to interpret through their own and a feministic lens. A few of the key topics that will be analyzed through these lenses are the…

“He [Simon] saw how pitilessly the layers of rubber and canvas held together the poor body that should be rotting away” (146). The boys would never find out that the beast that had caused so much anguish, was only a dead body. IX. GENRE The prime genre of The Lord of the Flies is an adventure story. William Harmon, in A Handbook to Literature defines an adventure story as: “A story in which…