Themes In The Curious Incident Of The Dog At Night

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“How does Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time portray interesting ideas about themes?”

By employing distinctive features, Mark Haddon effectively situates the responders to experience life through the perspective of an individual with autism. By openly disregarding the rules of conventional storytelling, Haddon’s implementation of exploring the everyday occurrences through the perspective of Christopher Boone, who happens to be a dramatically unconventional character, promotes the responder’s comprehending of the life of an individual who cannot grasp human interactions. Thus, Haddon’s murder-mystery novel portrays interesting ideas regarding difference by realistically applying contemporary society to Christopher’s world.

Haddon’s utilization of writing from the perspective of an autistic teenager instantly marks a distinctive quality present within the novel. Christopher’s accurate, detailed narration of his experiences allows the responder an insight into the functioning mind of an individual with Asperger’s syndrome. This concept is elaborated on in Chapter 11 when Christopher recounts his encounter with the police; “There was a police man and a police woman. The
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This notion is prominent when Christopher states “So I groaned to make the time pass quicker and not think” in the midst of a fit. Christopher’s tendency to shut down, groan, and curl himself into a ball essentially reveals the unpractical, self-destructive nature of how he copes with difficulty. As Haddon writes from the perspective of Christopher, the implementation of how Christopher copes with difficulty is highly significant as it provides the responder with realistic detail of how an individual with Asperger’s syndrome responds to stress, thus conveying interesting ideas of coping with

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