The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Essay

Guns and Mental Health The mentally ill teenager sits in his room for hours in a row while thoughts saturate his mind like a tidal wave beating at the shore of a deserted island. He has no medicine, but he reaches for the gun his dad gave him for his seventeenth birthday. He hides the gun in his backpack and goes to school. The only recognition he receives is in tomorrow 's newspaper as a "cold-blooded killer." In light of recent school shootings executed by mentally ill people, gun control…

In the novel, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime written by Mark Haddon, he tells a captivating narration that is given through an autistic child’s, named Christopher, unique point of view of everyday life. Christopher who is a fifth-teen year old boy diagnosed with Autism, knows all his countries in the world and their capital cities, also every prime number up to 7,057. He is also a brilliant boy in A levels math, and wants to pursue his dreams as a astronaut. As the story…