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The flow of the story is frequently interrupted with brief diversions. These include an explanation of prime numbers, an explanation of why Christopher won't include jokes in the story, and what the Milky Way galaxy is. Do you find these diversions to be effective or do they only interrupt the story? Which was you favorite diversion, if any?

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LeeJo · Posted: October 29 2007, 11:24 AM Post subject:

I love the diversions. I find them to be as interesting, if not more so, than the main story line! I love his maps, graphs, and illustrations.

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lespring · Posted: October 30 2007, 8:32 AM Post subject:

Well, what I think they helped was to see how the intrusive thoughts of obsessions sometimes cause him to get off track.

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Tom · Posted: October 30 2007, 10:04 AM Post subject:

I think the diversions are what give us a hint to what is going on in Christopher's mind. Without them it would be an odd story but Christopher would be even more of a cipher than he is.

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ecki · Posted: October 31 2007, 7:03 AM Post subject:

I think the diversions are essential to understanding Christopher. The autistic mind is SO different from the "neurotypical" mind.

My favorite diversion is the one on prime numbers. "Prime numbers are what's left when all the patterns are taken away." A pattern without a pattern, like life.

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jennifergg · Posted: November 01 2007, 12:56 PM Post subject:

I love the diversions. I think its a terrific way of letting us feel what it might be like to be inside the mind of a boy with autism. It's much more effective for me, this showing me what his thought processes are like, than just telling me that he has many interruptions in the flow of his thinking.

Too, it seems to be what all good writers do...make you feel like you know the character from the inside out. Why would a character with autism be handled any differently?

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