Mark Haddon's 'The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night'

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Mark Haddon effectively reconstructs the perception of Asperger’s throughout ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time’, transforming the preconceived concept of disability to abilities that differ, through the implementation of visual aids, first person perspective, stylistic devices and multimodal structure. The utilisation of first person perspective enabled Haddon to descriptively depict the cognition of Christopher, whilst excluding the use of a label: ultimately ensuring the audience would disregard their preconceived perception of autism.Haddon’s inclusion of varying visual aids accompanied by a logical explanation clarifying his reasoning, assists in the portrayal of Christopher’s unorthodox process of cerebration. The inclusion

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