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    Curious Summative “But that is not the way I am and there is nothing I can do to change that” (106). No matter how impossible something may seem, it is possible to change and grow as a person from it. The story of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time follows Christopher and his journey through both physical and mental self discovery. One day, while taking a walk in the early morning, Christopher finds his neighbor’s dog dead on the lawn; to his surprise, the dog had been stabbed…

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    observed, it can cause severe injury and even death. We will review two case studies where this routine task had gone wrong. We will discuss the possible causes of the errors and how we can prevent a similar incident in the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF). Case Study 1 - Civil Airliner Incident In 2008, the nose tire of a 50-seater passenger aircraft exploded during inflation. The German aircraft engineer performing the task was standing less…

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    My favourite chapter in Mark Haddon’s “the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time” is Chapter 179, because it comprises all the dominant themes and motifs in the novel. In the beginning paragraphs, one can recognize both the literacy (as in literal) and descriptiveness in Christopher’s tone of voice. This is a predominant theme in the story because the entirety of Christopher’s actions and reactions, and how Christopher perceives the world around him are based solely upon being literal…

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    Mark Haddon’s, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, is a well written piece of fiction, that displays unique literary merit. From the very first page of the novel the reader is plunged into the interior mental landscape of a fifteen year old autistic boy named Christopher. Christopher’s understanding of the world is distinctly different than an ordinary persons. Haddon is successful in making The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, a work of art attracting and…

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    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…

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    In the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time written By Mark Haddon is a mystery because of the hero in the story Christopher, the Villain in the story the father, and a red herrings throughout the book. In the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Christopher is a detective in the book and also enjoys a good mystery. Christopher has a mental illness and does not have many friends, Towards the beginning of the book, Christopher is solving the murder of…

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    The curious incident of the dog in the night-time draft by Henrik. This is my first draft of what I will write This book is about named Cristopher who lives with his father. Their family has a complicated history with many lies being told. On top of that Cristopher has asperser’s syndrome. One day Cristopher walks outside and finds his neighbour’s dog dead on the ground. He then takes the case in his own hands and decides to investigate who killed the dog. It is this investigation that leads…

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    In the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, the main protagonist and narrator, Christopher, is deceived by his father, Ed. Through sleuth, he has found out that his so called “dead” mother is not really dead; but instead, she is in London with the husband of a neighbor. Along with this, Christoper has also learned that his own father has killed Wellington, the dog of the neighbor whom ran off with Christopher's mom. Christopher learns the truth behind the lies that his dad tells him…

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    In the novel “The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime,” written by Mark Haddon the character Christopher, a 15-year-old boy who investigates the murder of the Wellington the dog. As appeared toward the begin of the novel Christopher sees the world much uniquely in contrast to us, that is without a doubt. One of the themes is introduced to us which is “Appearance vs Reality.” He sees substantially more of what's happening around him – he's an incredible observer, after all, yet he can't…

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    In the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Mark Hadden uses an analogy to further the central idea that human life is a product of a series of lucky occurrences. The protagonist, Christopher Boone, digresses from his thoughts on what is happening presently in his journey to focus on how specious the explanation of divine intervention is in a world where modern science can debunk theories justifying vague and obscure superstition. Hadden’s novel is centered around the thoughts…

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