Ten Things Every Child With Autism Wishes You Know Analysis

Mark Haddon was successful in creating the voice of an autistic teenage boy in the book. The book is mostly in first-person narrated by Christopher, which makes it easier for the readers to understand the kind of autistic person Christopher is and how he feels rather than if someone else was narrating the novel. After reading the article on “Ten Things Every Child With Autism Wishes You Know” and watching Temple Grandin, it made it easier to understand autism. In the book, when Christopher explains or prove something, he talks super fast, for example, in (page 116-118) of the book, he talks about how humans think their minds are different from computers. Christopher interprets language literally, like metaphors and idioms. In (page 15) he says, “imagining an apple in someone’s eye doesn’t have anything to do with liking someone a lot and it makes you forget what the person was talking about.” There are also many pictures and diagrams in the book, which Christopher uses when he can’t picture words or describe something in words because it’s easier for him to picture images and diagrams than words; this trait is …show more content…
For example, when Christopher first talked to Mrs. Alexander and she went inside to get something to eat, Christopher just took off and when he met Mrs. Alexander in the shop, he told her that he can’t talk to her because she is a stranger. Another example is when a lady approached Christopher at the train station and asked, “Is there anything I can do to help you?” and Christopher replied, “Stand further away, I’ve got a Swiss Army Knife and it has a saw blade and it could cut someone’s fingers off.” Christopher also mentions that when there are a lot of people around him, he groans to either make him feel better or make the people go