Comparative Essay: The Catcher and the Rye vs. The Curious Insident of the Dog in the Night-Time

It is exhausting for a person to fight a war inside their head every single day. One in ten young people experience a period of major depression at some point in their adolescence. Holden Caulfield is not the exception; he is emotionally unstable and suffers from a major disease not discussed in the novel. Though many think Holden is not suffering from a mental illness, his actions relate closely to the symptoms of an illness or disorder of some kind. In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield suffers from a Borderline Personality Disorder displayed through Holden’s excessive avoidance of his problems, substance abuse, and bouts of intense anger.

Attention Grabber: In the “Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” we see a young adult, Christopher, traveling through life and overcoming obstacles he never thought he could.

When growing up, children have mentors in their lives that should teach them lessons such as compassion, how to make mature decisions, and how to keep going when things get tough. In the books The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, the main character of each is not always taught all of these lessons.

Imagine that one has just been granted freedom. They now are free of responsibilities and now that person is allowed to do whatever their heart desires. What do you think that person would do with their new freedom? For Holden Caulfield and Chris McCandless, their choice was to live incognito, for a period of time. Each of them had a goal, and they both tried and did anything to try and achieve that goal. They both wanted to be free of restrictions and live their lives however they want. To try and discover who they truly were and what their purpose in life was. With their freedom, they were finally free of being someone they had been pretending to be for a majority of their lives. Throughout The Catcher in the Rye and Into the Wild, some traits were discovered among the two boys which made them comparable in many ways. One of those ways was that the plots of both pieces portrayed them as “outcasts” or “rebels” in society. Holden Caulfield and Chris McCandless can

This passage demonstrates why Christopher has a reserved personality.When speaking to Mrs.Alexander, Christopher feel nervous, even though he had previously spoken and she had treated him kindly. He only knows so little about her that it is not enough to deem her trustworthy. Even though Christopher is a grown, 15 year old boy, he still does not like going to parks on his own as he claims it is “dangerous” and doesn't want to interact the drug dealers. Staying on his own in an enclosed space is when he feels most comfortable. Christopher wanted “to go home” and “go up to [his] room”which portrays him as an introvert. Interacting with other, especially strangers is obviously not in his comfort zone, he would rather stay at home,which he considers

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon is a book about a 15 year old boy with autism named Christopher Boone and his detective case to find out who killed his neighbor's dog. Christopher lives with his father, Ed because his mother, Judy died when he was young.The author wants you to know in the beginning of the book that christopher is not a normal kid. It is never actually stated in the text that Christopher has autism but it's strongly hinted because of the way he acts. He gets alarmed by loud sounds and specific colors and when he gets uncomfortable he screams.

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J.D. Salinger the author of The Catcher in the Rye has refused to sell movie rights for the book because he’d rather that people actually read the book. Despite this fact the production company named Remix Culture released a new movie only in the United States on February 18th in 2008, and this movie was named The Catcher in the Rye. However when people actually saw the movie they did not expect to see what they did, the movie was only 75 minutes of just a blank blue screen. This struck a lot of controversy of why the movie wasn’t just like a regular movie. In the book The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield makes a great deal of how he dislikes film, and how it’s better to just read a book. With so many people trying to make The Catcher in the Rye into a movie it totally defeats the purpose of what Salinger was trying to tell the readers with his main character. Books we’re meant to be read not watched and with the movie

‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ is a fictional novel written by Mark Haddon. The novel is written in the perspective of an autistic Asperger syndrome boy, named Christopher Boone. One night, Christopher discovers his neighbour’s dog dead, with a garden fork straight through it. Christopher wonders who killed Mrs Shears’ dog named Wellington, so he decides to write a murder mystery novel for his teacher. Christopher’s

A common misconception many people have is that autistic people can’t live and develop on their own. This is proven wrong in Mark Haddon’s, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, through the main character Christopher, who is an autistic 15 year old boy. Throughout this story, the author focuses on Christopher and all the different situations he goes through. His parents are divorced, and Christopher presumes that his mother is dead. The neighbor’s dog gets murdered, and Christopher starts a mission to find the murderer.

The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, is a particularly perplexing bundle of mystery, and drama, hidden within the thoughts of Christopher Shears. A self proclaimed murder-mystery novel, by none other than the fictional narrator, Christopher, Haddon's novel eventually delves much deeper than what is revealed by it's surface. Although it's self proclamation would dictate this to any reader, not looking to analyze the book, as a murder-mystery novel, it truly is a blend of the mystery that is the world to Christopher Shears, and the external emotional struggle around him he cannot comprehend. Mark Haddon's novel does not focus on what the Narrator is trying to convey while "writing" this book. Using Christopher's inability

Literary analysis of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time The novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is a mystery novel for children written by the British author Mark Haddon in 2003. Despite the novel originally was written for adults, it also was popular among children too. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time got positive reviews from critics worldwide after it got published in London and in New York.

The Curious Incident Of Dog In The Night-time is a book about an investigation. The main character of this book, Christopher, who is a 15 boy has autism but good at math and living with his father. The story begins with Christopher found his neighbour, Mrs.Shear’s dog was dead with a garden fork. Then the boy decided to discover the truth, further more he considers to write a ‘Murder Mystery Novel’ through his adventures during the

Rationale: the following assignment is based on the book “The curios incident of the dog in the night-time“ by Mark Haddon.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, written by Mark Haddon, is a very unique book. The point of view changes so many things for the reader. It gives an insight to a way most of us do not normally think, and allows us to see things differently. The first person point of view gives us this effect in the novel. If one were to change the point of view of the story, the novel would be completely different. The point of view affects the reader’s experience in many different ways.