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__** Aspergers Syndrome **__

** //"Mr. Wise answered the door. He smelled of body odor and old biscuits and of popcorn, which is what you smell of if you havent washed for a long time."// ** ** Children with Aspergers Syndrome, which is a type of autism tend to pay attention to details about everyone and everything they see. **** Because they pay attention to so much detail, they cannot imagine things to well. They cannot imagine things because they only understand reality. As we see with Christopher, he is very literal. He usually tries to block reality out, whether it is hiding in a cupboard or covering up his ears. He has lived in his own little bubble, however children with Aspergers do have some extraordinary talents. **** Such as Christopher, he is very talented at math. Children with Aspergers mind works more literally than some "normal" people persay. Christopher's mind understands mathmatics very well because he is able to understand numbers better than others. Although, Christopher's mind in very analytical, he cannot understand other topics such as religion because there may be more than one answer to a topic in religion that has many different ways of finding the answer. ** [] (Pat Mahorcic)

//** Marilyn vos Savant **// [|http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/marilyn_vos_savant.html#ixzz1dM1nP5af] [] (Ricky Renner)
 * Marilyn vos Savant was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1946. She currently has the highest IQ out of anyone in the world and she works as a national columnist and an author. In the book, Christopher is really interested in Marilyn's "Game Show Problem." You see, Marilyn writes an "Ask Marilyn" section in the magazine //Parade//and this particular question is an extremely difficult one. Of course she gets it right, but the answer astounds everyone, even mathmaticians. Christopher talks about how she got her answer on page 65, "And this shows that intuition can sometimes get things wrong. And intuition is what people use in life to make decisions. But logic can help you work out the right answer." Christopher shows that the only way to find the right answer is through logic, but a lot of things in life don't have one answer. That's why he likes math: because no matter what it will always have one straightforward answer in the end, no matter how complex it is. **
 * " Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion." - Marilyn vos Savant **

**On page 87 Christopher talks about how he does like Sherlock Holmes very much, but does not like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the book because he believed in the super natural. And he even joined the Spiritualist Society when he got old because he wanted to talk to his dead son.** **Below that Christopher gives some information about the Cottingely Fairies. In 1917 two cousins said that they used to play with faries by a stream called Cottingley Beck. One of them used their father's camera to take pictures of the faries. Many said they were fake and later the cousins spoke about what was what. This Wikipedia page goes into depth about the Cottingley Faries.** [] (Griffin Shapiro)
 * __Cottingely Fairies__ **

** Tywcross Zoo (England) ** ** The Twycross Zoo is now in its 47th year of business. Within the next five years, Twycross Zoo will be recognized as being one of the world's top fifteen zoos for its contribution in the areas of ** ** animal welfare, research, conservation, education and sustainability. Some of its main exhibits include the South American Tropical House, opened in 2005, which a tropical experience with simulated thunder and lightning and tropical rainfall. Another exhibit is the Borneo Longhouse, opened in 2007, which is a sequence of exotic bird and animal exhibits. Also, the Elephant Walkway, "Uda Walawe", was opened in 2010. It is an Asian-themed trail and bridge over the elephants' bathing pool. **

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(-Madeline Tuohey)

__** Orions Belt **__ [] (Patrick Mohorcic)
 * [[image:http://www.orionn49.com/orioncon2.jpg width="231" height="222" align="right"]] // Christopher talks about Orion's Belt on page 125. Orions belt is a constellation of stars that make up Orion. Orion was said to be a hunter, as you can see by the club on the left and the bow and arrow on the right. Orion's belt is an attribute of the hunter Orion. In the picture you can see that the three stars next to each other make up his belt. When the sun is at the lowest point, the belt marks the northern night sky. In some cultures, they call the belt the three kings because they believed that the three kings followed the stars to find baby Jesus. Orion is unfortunatly 800 lightyears away from the Earth, so we will never be able to see Orion up close, only from Earth can we enjoy Orion's beauty. The ironic part in this book is that Christopher ran away from home and was looking for someplace to go, just like the Magi did when they were trying to find baby Jesus. // **
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__** Mathematics **__
[] - definition of mathematics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics (Ricky Renner)
 * Christopher has trouble trusting in people in things. Sometimes people can say things, but they don't actually mean it and they lie. People lie. People can lie about almost anything. That's why Christopher doesn't like people and this is why Christopher likes things like "maths" because when you come up with an answer in math it always mean what it says. One will always equal one, and two can't equal three. Also in math you can double check anything to make sure you got it right. There is always a right answer. To be exact, maths is a study of quantities and how they change. Every math problem has an answer and every answer has structure. This is very different from people and life because life is a mystery and people are unpredictable. This doesn't mean math is, however, because it can be quite complex to think that literal. Thinking literal is what Christopher is best at though. **

__** Space Time Continuum **__ [] (Griffin Shapiro)
 * On page 157 Christopher makes up a map of space and time and everything and everywhere. He talks about how on the right side of the map is the future and on the left is the past. He says how the shaded areas on the map are things we can't know about even though some of them have happened but at a certain point in time we will be able to know things that have happened in the lighter areas.This is a confusing idea esspecially when you don't have the map that Christopher made up to see. Despite the confusing concepts of this idea Christopher is abe to understand it and make a map so too show how his ideas make sence. Its impressing how he can grasp the ideas and provide proof of how they work. The link above gives a little information on the time-space continuum. (The picture above is not the map Christopher made up).**

** Blade Runner ** Christopher uses the 1982 movie, Blade Runner, as an example of a movie with a director's cut edition. This sic-fi thriller is the story of Rick Deckard, a blade runner, has to track down and terminate 4 replicants who hijacked a ship in space and have returned to earth seeking their maker. This film features Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard, Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty, and Sean Young as Rachael.

(Madeline Tuohey)