"Why do you think the dog on the cover is upside down? How do you
think this is related to the story and what is its meaning?
-Indonesian
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The dog on the cover is upside down because it reflects how Christopher might see things. Not literally, but he sees things from a different perspecctive from everyone else and the dog being upside down is a different perspective for all of us.
It could also be upside down to represent the fact that Christopher's life is kind of being turned upside down as well.
I agree with quarantined. The dog might be upside down in order to represent Christopher's perspective of life.
I think the dog is turned upside down because that's when Christopher's life changed. I don't know if everyone has read the whole book and I don't want to spoil it for people but when Christopher found out who killed his dog, I think his life just turned upside down. Everything he believed, the person he trusted, turned into an opposite direction. Because of the dog, he found out what had truly happened in his life. The death of the dog turned Christopher's life upside down.
Going off of tcr, the dog's state is Christopher life at the end. Confusion and questions, complexity and pain. Random emotions he doesn't understand how to sort through.
But has anyone thought that the upside down dog can just be the dead dog..upside down?
I believe the upside down dog represents Christoper's life. Because he is autistic, he thinks and lives his life differently than other people. For example, sometimes when he walks he visualizes an imaginary line. He follows this line and bumps into people along the way. Normal people watch where they are going and are careful of their surroundings. Christopher's life is the opposite of everyone else's. Christopher views situations differently as if he were upside down. I also agree with the upside down dog representing his horrible change in life.
The dog represents the great change in the middle of the book when Christopher reads the letters and finds out the secrets from his father. The dog shows that we may see something for its face value (a dead dog), but underneath the mystery of the dog is a deeper relationship between Christopher's parents and eventually between Christopher and his father. The fact that the dog is a cutout shows that there is a hole in Christopher's relationship with his parents. First he thinks his mother is dead, then he runs away from his father. Christopher's life pulls a 180 when he solves the mystery of the dead dog.
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