•1) The straight lines mean that the narrator follows the plot of the novel and scribbles represent flash - back, flash - forwards and comments .

•2) They differ from Tristram Shandy because their titles are  connected to adventure  and actions  instead  the title of Tristram shandy is liked not only to actions but also to thoughts of the protagonist.

•3) On the first Sunday night of every month during the whole year, Tristram's father wound up a large house clock: it was a rule for him. And in the same night it was a rule to have "family concernments" with his wife, in order to get all his commitments out of the way at once time. Thus, starting from his date of birth ( the 5^th of November) and from the habits of his father, Tristram calculates the date of his conception.

•4) His wife associates to Tristram's father habit of winding the clock the family concernments.

•5) Tristram concludes his conception saying that it could not have happened before or after March because pregnancy generally lasts nine months.

•6) The adjectives that describe at best the personality of Tristram's father are methodical and systematic because he had got some habits and he rigorously  respected them  .

•7) Tristram's family was not so rich , it is explicitly  that the protagonist's father was a "Turky merchant" so I deduce that his family come from a middle class.

•8) There is any hint that reveals whether Tristram is satisfy with his life because he explains only the conviction with the date of his conception.

•9) A comment clearly appears right from the first lines of the extract.  He says: "it is in pure compliance with this humour of theirs, and from backwardness in my nature to disappoint any one soul living, that I have been so very particular already."

•10)    Tristram is very different from his father because he is carefree and finicky because he tries to give an explanation of his date of conception.

•11)   Stern validates John Lock's theory right from Tristram's father and mother associations of ideas: they knew that when Tristram's father wound up the clock during the first Sunday night of the month, they would have a sexual relation.

•12)    Tristram's father is a mixture of a caricature and a flesh-and-blood character because,he is  systematic and methodical and he is made up of needs. This type of characterization is not valid for Tristram,  I think that the real protagonist of the novel is his Tristram, because he is more interesting  and he is mysterious.

•13)   The speakers in the dialogue are Tristram and a woman and he tells her something of his life.