Preparing to Run Away & Train Station - Quotations
English Lit: Edexcel IGCSE The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, topic 5.2.1
Christopher Runs Away and the Train Station - Quotations
Key quotations from Part Two:
Notebook - "performance"
- Siobhan, Mrs Gascoyne and other cast members ‘decide’ to turn Christopher’s notebook into “some kind of performance”.
- This is an in-joke for the audience who are currently watching the story turned into a dramatic performance.
Christopher "hides"
- Ed shouts out Christopher’s name in an attempt to find him but Christopher “hides”.
- This is a moment which symbolises their estrangement (separation) from each other.
Voices for signs Christoper sees
- “Dogs must be carried”
- “No smoking… No alcohol…”
- The first dramatic technique is the succession of voices which bombard Christopher, and the audience, with information. The voices represent the signs Christopher sees as he makes his way onto the station concourse and the successive list of commands helps to capture the sensation of being over-stimulated and confused.
Barking “like a dog”
- Christopher uses a new tactic in dealing with the outside world, barking “like a dog” at someone who accidentally bumps into him.
“Left, right, left, right…”
- Stephens also uses Siobhan, who is not actually with Christopher in the train station, to act as a metaphorical guide, talking him through the way to get onto the train, literally step by step.
Test yourself on Preparing to Run Away & Train Station - Quotations
What tactic does Christopher employ when people accidentally bump into him in the train station?
What do Siobhan, Mrs Gascoyne and other cast members ‘decide’ to turn Christopher’s notebook into?