Ed's Frustrations & Mrs Alexander - Quotations
English Lit: Edexcel IGCSE The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, topic 5.1.5
Ed's Frustrations and Mrs Alexander - Quotations
Key quotations from Part One:
Confronts Mrs Gascoyne
- “Getting a crap enough deal already”.
- “Not going to take no for an answer”.
- He is determined to help Christopher sit his Maths A-Level exam early.
Confronts the investigation
- “That man is evil” (speaking about Mr Shears).
- “Stop this ridiculous bloody detective game”.
- This scene marks the first moment in the play where Ed’s frustrations spill out into conflict with his son.
Scene 3: astronaut description
- “Give it a bit of a break”.
- Ed interrupts Christopher’s description of why he would be a good astronaut.
Christopher's wish
- “There was no one else near” him for thousands of miles.
Meeting with Mrs Alexander
- Christopher does not “do chatting”.
- Asks whether his mother and Mr Shears were “doing sex”.
- Mrs Alexander's shock at Christopher's mother's death: “Oh my goodness. Oh, Christopher I am so, so sorry. I never realised”
Test yourself on Ed's Frustrations & Mrs Alexander - Quotations
What does Ed say about the investigation?
What does Christopher wish?