The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Charlie’s Law Can we call it a Murphy’s law night? That’s basically what it was. A night where anything that could have gone wrong did. My dog Charlie is a very different kind of dog. She can be very high strung at times. She is a black lab that loves, and I mean would jump off a 10 foot drop just to be able to run. To set the setting of this lovely night my dog put me thru I guess I should mention I used to live in Sonora, Ca.. In Sonora all you have is mountains, multiple lakes and…

everyone has a good heart? Well if you have I’m going to answer that for you right now. The story I am going to be talking about is “Stray” by Cynthia Rylant. I really liked this book. This book was about this girl who finds a dog over winter. She is not allowed to have a dog so her dad says that he is going to take it to the pound. But then he looks at the pound and it is really dirty. Then the people who work at the pound tell him that they kill the pet after 10 days if no one adopts it. So he…

Christopher Boone is a normal 15-year-old boy. Well other than the fact he has Asperger’s Syndrome. This is a neurobiological disorder that has many symptoms, that causes his attitude to be a little bizarre. Asperger’s Syndrome makes Christopher express himself in great detail, makes him have concrete thinking, and does not like to be touched. One symptom is that he likes to describe things in great detail. In the book he explains what prime numbers are and other non-important stuff. He…

Many novels have introductions that start with some sort of loss to grasp the reader's attention, but in the novel The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime by Mark Haddon not only does loss occur at the start of the story, but each main character endures the loss of someone or something important at some period in the story, and some of them alter their decisions based on their loss. Christopher, Ed, and Eileen all experience 2 losses throughout the story that had a great impact on their…

Christopher Boone has many characteristics, but one really distinct one is his inability to express love or feelings. In the novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime written by Mark Haddon, Christopher has a condition known as Asperger’s and many people with it also have a seeming lack of feelings or inability to express or understand others emotions. Christopher’s mother left him and his dad and his dad didn’t know how tell him. So, Christopher though that she passed away until…

There is no doubt that “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time” is the greatest book to be read in a grade 9 English class. Written in 2003, this book shows a real understanding of autism and the struggles people with autism face. The award-winning author, Mark Haddon, not only created one of the most believable, original and heart-wrenching books of the decade but he gave the readers an opportunity to see the world through the eyes of a person with autism, a feat which has not been…

All in all, between The Odyssey and The Curious Incident Of the Dog In The Night Time there are clear similarities and differences involving the monomyth and how it was applied to each story. The stages are pretty different especially because each hero is very different. Among each story are an initiation stage, departure stage, middle stage, and final stage that mimics the monomyth but also have distinct characteristics in relation to story it is telling. During the initiation and departure…

Malcontent is was a student-run production making it limited due to its means. The two productions have very different standards that they need to live up to yet still can measure up to depending on how you look at it. Both The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a professional production, and The Millennial Malcontent, an amateur one, have intricate sets that are made to be manipulated to create varying settings with little movement. The two shows, still being drastically different,…

and The Curious incident of the dog in the night time. Also, in Much Ado about Nothing I will outline the immaturity of Claudio as well as the horrific manner in which Claudio treated Hero throughout the film. Furthermore, I will also outline how the aspect that people should never give up is shown in the short story The Fly. Finally I will discuss the struggle to be independent in The Captive Lion. In the novels, Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philback and The Curious Incident of the dog in the…

his father in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. In the book, Christopher becomes afraid and upset with his father since Mr. Boone killed Wellington, Mrs. Shears’s dog. Christopher was also very fond of Wellington, and Mr. Boone lied about killing Wellington at first. Christopher does not feel safe with his father anymore, so he travels to stay with his mother. At the end of the book, Christopher visits his dad more and more. Christopher’s dad gets him a new dog and tells him…