SCAR TISSUE pages 30 - 53

By reading these chapters I have discovered so much about Anthony. When he was 10 he smoked pot for the first time and he would casually hang around with Sony and Cheer. He was living with his dad in California and living a party life at a young age. His dad would take him to nightclubs regularly, and before they would leave for the club his dad would insure that he was high and so was his son. This started to become normal to Anthony, he also was used to seeing his dad with a different woman every night or having coked out people passed out all over his house. As his life progresses he makes drugs a daily routine. He eventually goes to college but not for long and decides that college isn’t his thing. His bad randomly starts one day when he is asked to perform. he gets together with some buddies ad puts together a little performance. When they perform everyone loves them and they decide to form a band. they start talking about band names one day and they got toe idea for their band name form two other band names combined and from then on they were known as the “Red Hot Chili Peppers”

SCAR TISSUE pages 1-30

One of the reasons that I choose this book was because the author is the lead singer of one of my favorite bands, The Red Hot Chili Peppers. This book is a memoir about Anthony’s life and the creation of his band. I thought that it would be interesting to learn about his journey through drugs and what inspired him to write all of his songs for his band. I know that Scar Tissue will be a good book because when I picked it up in the store, I flipped open to a page and I couldn’t stop reading. The book is also a New York Times best seller. In the few pages I have read I can relate to what the author is going through and some of the things he is telling the reader, this interests me even more. I am very excited to read this book and learn about the formation of his band and his journey through life.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. chapters 109-127

These chapters were really interesting because Christopher decried how his mind works.
He said “My memory is like a film. And when people ask me to remember something I can simply press rewind fast foreword and pause like on a video recorder.”(76)
I think this is really strange because when he decries his memories he includes every detail. He remembers the exact dates of everything, his age, and what people were wearing. He could even tell you the brand of cigarettes his mother was smoking. He uses his memory to discover what is going on in a situation. He cant understand things like an everyday person can. When someone says “see you later alligator” he thinks of an alligator and it doesn’t make any sense to him. So when he sees something strange like someone laying on the ground or someone says something strange to him he refers to his past to see if other people act like that to make sense of what is going on. He thinks like this because he is autistic. He also has no imagination, he doesn’t understand when someone is talking about their future or uses metaphors because he cannot picture things that are not realistic. He doesn’t understand what someone means when they tell him to use his imagination because he thinks its impossible. This is interesting to me because how can someone be so smart in one part of there brain but be lacking so much knowledge in the other parts.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. chapters 101-109

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes” (73)

Christopher is quoting Sherlok Holmes. This quote is significant because Christopher relates this to his life. He thinks that this quote doesn’t apply to him, just like it doesn’t apply to Sherlok Holmes. Christopher is different and thinks a in a completely different way then all the other kids, he notices strange things and is a very good problem solver. He thinks different because of his autism, and is more of a careful observant person. Christopher is writing a mystery novel because he knows this about himself. In his book he makes sure that he includes every detail even if they are irrelevant. He also knows how to solve mysteries because his favorite books are the ones about Sherlok Holmes. His favorite book is The Hound of Bakervills, because its also about a dog, but the dog doesn’t die, the dog scares someone to death.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. chapters 89-101

“I like maths because they are not like life, they have a straightforward answer in the end” (61-62)

This quote is significant because Christopher is solving a mystery and this quote ties in with how difficult it is to solve a mystery. He is going out of his way and doing things that make him uncomfortable, like talking to strangers to solve this mystery. He also discovered why his father didn’t like Mr. Shears. Christopher was out on a walk and saw Mrs. Alexandria and asked her why her father thought Mr. Shears was an evil man but she didn’t want to tell him. He asked this because Mr. Shears was his prime suspect, but his father hated him for a different reason for a different reason. With a lot of persuading he finally convinced Mrs. Alexandra to tell him why. She made him promise that if she told him he wouldn’t tell his dad. She finally told him that the reason his father hated Mr. Shears was that before his mother died his mother cheated on him with Mr. Shears. Christopher was not upset about his mother’s betrayal, he was just upset that no one ever told him. This is significant because it also ties in with the quote because he never got a answer when he asked his parents why they were fighting, he has to go to the neighbors who knew before him.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. chapters 83-89

In these chapters Christopher has discovered his prime suspect of Wellington’s murder. He thinks Mr. Shears Killed Wellington. He thinks that Mr. Shears did it to make Mrs. Shears mad. His father also said that Mr. Shears is an “Evil Person” (49). Christopher’s father doesn’t what him to go investigate on their property. He also doesn’t know why his father thinks that Mr. Shears is an evil man. Christopher’s father gets really upset with him when he finds out that he is questioning the neighbors, so he makes him promise that he will stop trying to solve the mystery of Wellington. Christopher is really upset about this and he doesn’t listen and continues to investigate.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. chapters 79-83

"I thought mother and father were going to get a divorce because of the stress of looking after someone who has behavior problems."(47)
In theses chapters you discover some of the behavior problems that he has. Like hitting people, or taking his mother’s car out for a spin. He is also very difficult to make happy. He has to have every thing his way because he is so high maintenance. If someone touches his toothbrush he can never use it again. He knows that he is different from everyone else and he blames a lot of things on himself. I think that he shouldn’t do that because if his parents get divorced she shouldn’t have to put that blame on him self. He seems like a responsible kid and also want to take responsibility for the other things that go wrong in his life, like hi parents marriage.