Careless Communication With the Uncommunicative:
The Ways In Which People are Confused on Christopher’s Communication Method
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When a person talks to another person, it's a conversation and, it's communication. Some people don't communicate well at all, not because they don't want to but because they don't know how. In Mark Haddon’s novel, the curious incident of the dog in the night-time the protagonist is a young boy named Christopher who has autism and, his communication skills are slim to nonexistent compared to another’s. The way Christopher tends to communicate confuses people who do not know him and are not used to his personality. Specifically, in this novel, Haddon has forced many police confrontations onto Christopher. As well …show more content…
Although Christopher feels safe with them, the workers do not understand him. In the train station when he was walking to get a ticket he said “It wasn't so frightening this time because there was a policeman with [him]” (151). The same policeman was the one who tried to get Christopher back to his father by “reached out to touch [him] again”(160) and started threatening Christopher. Since Christopher is resisting the policeman, he gets mean and loses Christopher’s trust. The officer was very nice and calm before but, as soon as Christopher acts up the policeman gets violent and angry. This starts when the officer “grabbed [him] and [he] screamed”(159) causing the officer to become irked. The policeman does not know how to deal with Christopher, so he becomes physical with …show more content…
Since it had been so long, she doesn’t exactly handle Christopher well. She had forgotten how to care for Christopher in a way that he is comfortable with. Judy had kept speaking things, doing things and asking him for things that she forgot he was apprehensive about. When she first sees him, she hugs him on a whim. She then says that “[she’s] so sorry, Christopher. [She] forgot.” (191). She also brought him to a store with many people in it, and she knew that Christopher did not like that because she has witnessed it before. One time they had went Christmas shopping and she admitted that “[she] was so cross.”(107). Since that was written in a letter, she definitely remembered it but forgot to apply it to Christopher because she thought that if she tried hard enough Christopher could learn how to communicate clearer. Judy may have once barely managed to communicate with Christopher before, but after she lost contact with him she has abolished her connection with him and can no longer interpret
The Ways In Which People are Confused on Christopher’s Communication Method
St
When a person talks to another person, it's a conversation and, it's communication. Some people don't communicate well at all, not because they don't want to but because they don't know how. In Mark Haddon’s novel, the curious incident of the dog in the night-time the protagonist is a young boy named Christopher who has autism and, his communication skills are slim to nonexistent compared to another’s. The way Christopher tends to communicate confuses people who do not know him and are not used to his personality. Specifically, in this novel, Haddon has forced many police confrontations onto Christopher. As well …show more content…
Although Christopher feels safe with them, the workers do not understand him. In the train station when he was walking to get a ticket he said “It wasn't so frightening this time because there was a policeman with [him]” (151). The same policeman was the one who tried to get Christopher back to his father by “reached out to touch [him] again”(160) and started threatening Christopher. Since Christopher is resisting the policeman, he gets mean and loses Christopher’s trust. The officer was very nice and calm before but, as soon as Christopher acts up the policeman gets violent and angry. This starts when the officer “grabbed [him] and [he] screamed”(159) causing the officer to become irked. The policeman does not know how to deal with Christopher, so he becomes physical with …show more content…
Since it had been so long, she doesn’t exactly handle Christopher well. She had forgotten how to care for Christopher in a way that he is comfortable with. Judy had kept speaking things, doing things and asking him for things that she forgot he was apprehensive about. When she first sees him, she hugs him on a whim. She then says that “[she’s] so sorry, Christopher. [She] forgot.” (191). She also brought him to a store with many people in it, and she knew that Christopher did not like that because she has witnessed it before. One time they had went Christmas shopping and she admitted that “[she] was so cross.”(107). Since that was written in a letter, she definitely remembered it but forgot to apply it to Christopher because she thought that if she tried hard enough Christopher could learn how to communicate clearer. Judy may have once barely managed to communicate with Christopher before, but after she lost contact with him she has abolished her connection with him and can no longer interpret