Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time

Portraying empathy This book portrays empathy by Christopher showing emotion throughout the book. Mark Haddon's the curious incident of the dog in the night-time creates empathy through the character's development throughout the book, point of view and Atmosphere. Christopher’s character development contributes to readers feeling empathy.

The choices and decisions made control our lives and build our future. Regardless of whether individuals see it or not, the choices did influence today, impact our tomorrow. Once a choice made, the actions play out, and the results convey; at that point, must choose the option to live with those outcomes. In the short story "The Father," the author, Hugh Garner utilizes character development of John Purcell to demonstrate that one's irresponsible choices made have the ability to jeopardize an essential relationship in one's life.

Thus, the narrator’s father dealt with the same struggle that the narrator and Sonny are facing now. The narrator wants to protect his brother from the darkness of the world that has always threatened to invade their lives but he fails to do so as he is torn by his emotions, which shift quickly from love to hate and he is also unable to express his emotions, feelings and concern towards Sonny.

“Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice”, focuses on the relationship between the protagonist, who is referred to as ‘Child’, and his father, referred to as ‘Ba’. The opening story follows the protagonist as he is struggling to overcome writers block, whilst dealing with his estranged Vietnamese father who is visiting. A number of flashbacks are used as a literary device to divulge into the protagonists past with his father as well as the fathers past. This reveals, not only an abusive past with his father, but also his father’s memories of the Vietnam war. It becomes clear that the son makes excuses for his father, with his girlfriend Linda also noting this, “I think you’re making excuses for him…You’re romanticising his past to make sense of the things you said he did to you” (pp.20). The protagonist reflects this himself, making the excuse that “he was a soldier” (pp.13), and that is why his father treated him as he did. The protagonist, despite once being able to admit to Linda that his father abused him, can no longer admit this, as his relationship with his father grows, and it can be argued that he is willing to overlook his past in an attempt to reconcile with his father. “It was too much these words, and what connected to them” (pp.13).

He brings Ashes to a diner and tells her how he has a possibility to make him on easy street. He informs her that it is more like he needs to pay $200 to some guys because he is debt, but he doesn’t have the money so he asks Ashes to steal from her mother. This is an example of how the father teaches something that he shouldn’t be and that it is okay to steal if you are in a dire need of the money. While this is the last point I believe that it really pulls the whole theme together.

In this case, Christopher had to forgive and trust his father after he found out that he had killed Wellington. When Christopher found out that Mr Boone killed Wellington, he was very scared, which was one of the reasons that he ran away from Swindon to go to London to live with his mother. Mr Boone tries really hard to gain Christopher’s trust once again and make amends. An example of this is seen when Christopher and Ms Boone moved back to Swindon, and Mr Boone tries to gain Christopher’s trust by creating a “project” that he and Christopher have to complete. Mr Boone explains, “‘Let’s call it a project. A project we have to do together. You have to spend more time with me. And I...I have to show you that you can trust me. And it will be difficult at first because... because it’s a difficult project. But it will get better. I promise.’” (Haddon 219) This directly shows that Mr Boone is trying really hard to gain Christopher’s trust again and make their relationship strong as it used to be. By doing so, Mr Boone also gives Christopher a gift, to act like a peace token. The book states, “Then he came back through and gave me the dog. And he said, ‘He’s two months old. And he’s a golden retriever.’” (Haddon 219) When Mr Boone did this, it was a way for him to gain Christopher’s trust since he killed Wellington the dog, by giving Christopher his very own golden retriever. This acted as a peace offering to bring Christopher and his father together once again and to gain his trust. This sets the notion in the book that there is hope within the family for them to be repaired and to be loving family once

Temple Grandin’s TED talk and the novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, have several similarities between the two. In the TED talk, Temple explains the way children with autism think, process, and react differently from those who are not autistic. Grandin announced to the crowd of the TED talk convention that those with autism tend to be sensitive to sound- just as Christopher was in the novel. There were several occurrences when Christopher’s surroundings became too much to handle- which is why “[he] walked at the edge of the road. And [he] didn’t like all the people being near [him] and all the noise because it was too much information in [his] head”(The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time 139). She also

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a book that should be read by the millennial generation. The millennial generation would benefit from reading this book from its incorporation of the main character’s development disorder. The main character, Christopher, has difficulties with social interaction but the author doesn’t make the book revolve around this fact. Christopher describes himself as, “a mathematician with some behavioral difficulties”. Christopher investigates the murder of his neighbor’s dog and is confronted with surprising news when he finds out about the status of his parent’s marriage and when his father confesses to the murder. Christopher discovers his mother hasn’t passed away like his father told him and is instead living in London with his

The God Complex, something strongly touched on in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” is very straightforward to the main character “Christopher”. The book revolves around Christopher and his day-to-day mystery solving. Throughout the book you see hints at how Christopher struggles in believing in a god. This could reflect his black and white morals, he shows throughout the book. The God Complex is a challenging and touchy subject; however, this book puts it into an interesting situation.

In literature, it is hard to have a character that is completely truthful; there is usually at least one scenario where the protagonist would be required to tell a lie to get out of a situation. Even in real life, the average person is guaranteed to tell at least a few lies in their lifetime. In the book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, the protagonist is a teenage boy by the name of Christopher. He suffers from a type of autism, and this is why he is physically unable to tell lies. This has a large impact on the plot because of the way Christopher deals with the problems he faces in the book. Instead of telling strategically placed fibs to get the information he needs, Christopher can only be brutally honest, which can be either helpful or harmful to his cause depending on the situation. Christopher being honest throughout the book is a major key to how the plot progresses.

A unique insight provides a rationale to challenge preconceived notions and initiate social discourse. Composers provide a snapshot of the autistic mind to demonstrate how society perceives people of difference, and how their diversity is interpreted. Through the text 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' (hereafter ‘The Curious Incident…’), composer Mark Haddon explicates the affect neurological difference has on the postmodern family and the ramifications of social stereotyping. Through expounding how individuals who contrast social expectation are ostracised, Mark Haddon accentuates society's inability to tolerate difference, thus diminishing communal diversity. Haddon explores the concepts of truth, relationships and perceptions to emphasise the significance of acceptance. Protagonist Christopher's affinity for truth is emphasised as individuals of difference seek security from the fractured and turbulent world by

Theme is key to any story, which is why it is important that Christopher is the one who talks about this story. If Christopher's father was telling the story, his theme would be something completely different than Christopher’s. The theme that Christopher conveys in the book, is something along the lines of overcoming your fears. This is because he spent most of the book running away from his father, which is quite difficult, and dealing with other personal issues he had along the way. Christopher’s father's theme might be telling the truth, because that is

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon follows the story of christopher Boone, a special needs person and his adventure to unravel the mystery behind a dog’s deaths.I believe the author has many purposes for writing this book.His main purpose is to shed light on the life of people with special needs and the difficulties they must have gone through because of the special needs.The book showed us christopher’s many struggles and his special needs in life.We were able to have a understanding of the life of a special needs person.The second reason the author wrote this book is to teach us about the effects of lies and deceives and how it can have a huge impact on relationships.Christopher’s father Ed Boone lied to christopher

Finally, Christophers inability to adapt to his father lying to him has a negative effect on his relationship with his father. Christopher is unable to understand why his father lied to him which, in turn, causes great fear and mistrust between Christopher and his father. This fear is demonstrated when Christopher decides to run away from home stating, “and the thought of going somewhere on my own was frightening. But then I thought about going home again… and father finding me, and that me feel even more frightened. And when I thought about that I felt like I was going to be sick again like the night before,” (130). Firstly, Christopher does not handle unknown or new situations well and tends to freak out when placed in one. Furthermore, he

In Curious incident of the dog in the night-time, Christopher’s father is an important character because he is selfish and daring which causes Christopher’s relationship with his mother and his life to change.