Mark Haddon
- A white lie - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
When I got home Father was sitting at the table in the kitchen and he had made me a supper. He was wearing a lumberjack shirt. The supper was baked beans and broccoli and two slices of ham and they were laid out on the plate so that they were not touching. He said, "Where have you been?" And I said, "I have been out." This is called a white lie. A white lie is not a lie at all. It is where you tell the truth but you do not tell all of the truth.
Mark Haddon
- Mother & Mrs. Forbes
Mrs. Forbes at school said that when Mother died she had gone to heaven. That was because Mrs. Forbes is very old and she believes in heaven. And she wears tracksuit trousers because she says that they are more comfortable than normal trousers. And one of her legs is very slightly shorter than the other because of an accident on a motorbike.
Mark Haddon
- A heart attack - The Curius Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
A heart attack is when some of the muscles in the heart stop getting blood and die. There are two types of heart attack. The first is an embolism. That is when a blood clot blocks one of the blood vessels taking blood to the muscles in the heart. The other one is an aneurysm and that is when a blood vessel breaks and the blood doesn't get to the heart muscles because it is leaking.
