Get Out Commentary

First off “Get Out” by Jordan Peele was an amazing and intelligent movie to watch. The way Peele was able to weave in historical context such as slavery and current day societal issues of minorities still continuously being oppressed and underestimated by white elites, using successful blacks as their victims. Furthermore suggesting that whites want to be structured like the black successful and strong men in society by setting the scene with Dean Armitage, Rose’s father in the movie, explaining to Chris how his father ran in the 1936 summer olympics with Jesse Owens, the only black man running and who won the gold medal in front of Hitler, stating that “He almost got over it.” Establishing that minorities, especially blacks, are underestimated a lot in today's society and that is mostly due to blacks not having access to things that would make them successful as white people do, and this is illustrated in the dialogue between characters and the movie progresses. Skipping close to the end Rose states that she cannot give him the keys to the car symbolizing that blacks are constantly getting stuck  in the ranks of society they’re in because the white elites don't allow them to move up in society. Lastly, at the very end Peele did a great  job of physically illustrating that physical and psychological change, concluding that the society we live in is messed up and that anyone no matter their race break through the oppression that's not allowing them to reach their full potential.

Guy Angel Nerys

School Of The Future

In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Christopher shows a lil bit of maturity from beginning to the end. In my opinion the book is a tentative story, because he didn't fully met his standards in becoming a full adult. Christopher is 15 years old and has autism , I give him full credit in being mature about the choices he makes perhaps on pg 144. Christopher shows his maturity in a way where he figure things out on his own after asking a good amount of people on where to go and how to get their. Another point I would like to bring up is , the dead dog and new dog symbolizes about setting a new stage in life. The dead dog represents negative and old situations that has happened in Christopher’s passed and the new dog represents a new life and new beginnings.

Ada Ng 

In “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”, Mark Haddon explores the most important part of the reading would be the change in Christopher and his father’s relationship throughout the story. In the beginning of the story, on page 16, you can see that Christopher was in jail for hitting a police officer and his father had to pick him up. When they saw each, instead of physical contact which Christopher does not like, his father spread his fingers out like a fan and waited for Christopher to do the same thing so their thumbs would touch, meaning they love each other. This connection implies that their relationship is close and healthy, Christopher is comfortable with his father. Their relationship changes after Christopher found out his father killed the neighbor’s dog, Wellington, and becomes afraid of his father and runs away to live with his mother. On page 197 when his father is trying to ask for his forgiveness and tries to have the same connection, Christopher refuses to return the same motion. This reveals that their relationship has worsen and probably broken.

In the story of the curiosa incident of the dog in the nighttime the main characters complexity through the story can confuse. Christopher has a 360 of emotions from the beginning to the end of the story. Christopher and his mother have a rocky relationship in his early childhood as she had a hard time controlling him. " and you grabbed the chopping board and you threw that and it hit my foot and broke my toes." The characters relationship with his mother is a strain on her causing her to leave for London. His bond with his father is strong they have trust. The father understands Christopher and knows her does not like to give hugs so they made there own personal way of conveying love. " I held up my left hand and spread my fingers out in a fan and we made our thumbs touch each other. We do this because sometimes father wants to give me a hug, but I do not like hugs." You then see Christopher's feelings change toward his father when he finds his mothers letters and his father catches him.  Soon after he decides to go live with his mother in England because he can no longer trust his father and he is scared of him because he killed Wellington. This illustrates the mix of emotions Christopher has when it comes to his parents. He does not know who to trust anymore. 

In the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, as we get closer to the ending we see Christopher finding himself and independence, finally making the changes into adulthood. However, though of his growth he still needs his parents guidance, revealing that he still depends on them. Christopher travels to Swindon, where his mom lives, because he feels he can trust his mother than his father. Throughout the book it is clear that Christopher's father can act violently when Christopher’s actions are unusual or unexplainable; for example, Christopher looking for Wellington’s murderer. However on the other hand  his mother becomes  frustrated and sad when Christopher acts out unusually; for example screaming in public. Both Christopher’s mom and dad represent the conflicting sides of Christopher. One where he is violent and aggressive when he is upset, his father. And the other side where he gets frustrated and sad making him want to leave his situation, his mother. On page 107 it shows the similarity between  his mother and himself ,“And I remember that night I just cried and cried and cried...I said I couldn't take it anymore.” Seeing this from Christopher’s mom's perspective it demonstrates how when Christopher’s mother is overwhelmed or just confused, she doesn't know what to do, she gets frustrated and sad, because it’s hard for her to understand why Christopher does what he does, so she usually takes the pain out on herself.

I think that in this book called "The curious incident of the dog in the night time" by Mark Haddon, it consist of so many thing but the main thing is that Christopher (the narrator) goes on a quest/ journey and figures out a lot through out everything. In the beginning, it seems that the person that is always there for him is his dad and he tries to always stay on Christopher side no matter what the case is. In the novel there was a quote on page 16 that said "I want to see my son...why the hell is he locked up?...of course i'm bloody angry." It was explaining how Christopher was arrested for hitting a police officer but it was out of fear he didn't know how to explain it to the police officer that he was invading his person space so his way of explaining it was by hitting him. The father had came down to the precinct  because he wasn't really caring why his son was locked up he just wanted to see him and get him out the precinct. But later on in the book you see where the change happens and Christopher and Toby (his pet rat) ends up leaving to go to London but he also finds out that the dad killed wellington and that his mom was alive he finally made it to London and was able to be with her and see her even though there was some hardships that happened on the journey there.