Parenting - Quotes
English Lit: Edexcel IGCSE The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, topic 5.3.2
Theme of Parenting - Quotations
The play explores how difficult being a parent can be and dramatizes some of the issues that all parents face. Here are a few key quotations:
“Not a very good mother"
- “I was not a very good mother Christopher”.
- Judy’s letters to Christopher are a form of confession in which she tells her son that she feels she failed as a parent.
Judy's insecurities
- Ed “is a much more patient person”.
- “It would be better for all of us if I went”.
- Judy seems to suffer a form of breakdown, with her lack of self-worth at least partly caused by her feelings that she has let her son down and that Christopher deserves better.
"Get the facilities"
- We also see Ed ‘s determination in standing up for Christopher, bluntly telling Mrs Gascoyne to “get the facilities” for Christopher to be able to sit the A-level Maths exam early.
Breaking trust with Christopher
- “Everything I’d been bottling up for two years”.
- A stormy and short-lived relationship with Mrs Shears leads to Ed killing Wellington.
- Christopher’s discovery of both of these acts leads to a complete breakdown in trust with his father.
Test yourself on Parenting - Quotes
Which quotation does Judy use of herself as a mother?