Mark Haddon uses the motif of escape in the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time which develops the theme that one cannot break free from their problems by running away from them. Christopher does not like being around people given his condition. In chapter 83 Christopher begins to speak about how he would make a great astronaut because they work thousands of miles away from the nearest human being when they are in space. He then tells a story about how he hides in a cupboard when he wants to get away from people and he says he likes to “sit there and think for hours and it makes me very calm”. This displays Haddon’s use of escapism revealing that one cannot run from their problems because although Christopher hiding from
