It Makes Sense
Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Night-time has one reoccurring theme that he has highlighted throughout the novel, Logic. He illustrates this by his sentence structure and by showing the way Christopher, the protagonist, processes everything by using and needing concrete facts or patterns and various structures to justify his different conclusions he arrives at throughout the novel, also on how each chapter is labeled with prime numbers.
Haddon does not do anything without a purpose in this novel. Everything plays a role from the sentence to the words used. His repetitive use of coordinating conjunctions throughout the novel shows the reader balanced sentences, thus giving us order. For example he continuously starts every sentence with “And”:
‘And I said, ‘I think I should go now.’ And she said, ‘Are you OK Christopher?’ And I said, ‘I’m scared of being in the park with you because you’re a stranger.’ And she said, …show more content…
“I got Siobhan to draw lots of faces and then write down next to them exactly what they. I kept the piece of paper in my pocket and took it out when I didn’t understand what someone was saying. But it was very difficult to decide which of the diagrams was most like the face they were making because people’s faces move very quickly” (Haddon). Christopher struggles with the facial expression so much because there is plethora of expressions our facial expressions can convey and not always one feeling to assign to one. That is why he has explained his fondness with dogs, “I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating” (Haddon). There is no confusion for Christopher he can always tell what the dog is feeling unlike humans which confuses him because it’s not logical like
Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Night-time has one reoccurring theme that he has highlighted throughout the novel, Logic. He illustrates this by his sentence structure and by showing the way Christopher, the protagonist, processes everything by using and needing concrete facts or patterns and various structures to justify his different conclusions he arrives at throughout the novel, also on how each chapter is labeled with prime numbers.
Haddon does not do anything without a purpose in this novel. Everything plays a role from the sentence to the words used. His repetitive use of coordinating conjunctions throughout the novel shows the reader balanced sentences, thus giving us order. For example he continuously starts every sentence with “And”:
‘And I said, ‘I think I should go now.’ And she said, ‘Are you OK Christopher?’ And I said, ‘I’m scared of being in the park with you because you’re a stranger.’ And she said, …show more content…
“I got Siobhan to draw lots of faces and then write down next to them exactly what they. I kept the piece of paper in my pocket and took it out when I didn’t understand what someone was saying. But it was very difficult to decide which of the diagrams was most like the face they were making because people’s faces move very quickly” (Haddon). Christopher struggles with the facial expression so much because there is plethora of expressions our facial expressions can convey and not always one feeling to assign to one. That is why he has explained his fondness with dogs, “I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating” (Haddon). There is no confusion for Christopher he can always tell what the dog is feeling unlike humans which confuses him because it’s not logical like