Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime Essay

We all, at some point in our lives have met, lived or been around a person with a disability. But we may not really understand what it is like to live with someone who has a disability, and how it not just affects them, but the people around them and who has to be live and take care of them. In the novel ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime” it shows us what life is like for a young teenager named Christopher who has Asperger’s, and not just that, it gives us an insight into how it affects the people around him such as his father and mother. Illustrating that it is a very different and sometime very difficult life to live for both the person with Asperger’s and the people around them.
This novel gives people who do not have Asperger’s, a great insight into the life and mainly the way in which someone with Asperger’s thinks. This is shown multiple times throughout the novel. All the chapters are primary numbers because he likes prime numbers, he finds them to be like life “very logical but you could never work out the rules”.
It is also written as a first person recount and the way in which Christopher sees and talks, is very mono tone and keeps that …show more content…
It also gives us a perspective of someone living with him through letters which his mum has written. She explains how it was hard for her to live with Christopher, giving an example of taking him to the shops when it was really busy. Christopher crouched down and put his hands on his head and was in the way of everyone. When she tried to get him to move he shouted and knocked things off the shelf. It is not Christopher’s fault; it is just how he is. But this highlights and shows the difficulties and issues that arise from living with someone who has such a “disability”, they just have a lack of social skills and are not able to filter noise; it all comes together as