Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time

What makes fiction novels especially interesting are the larger messages hidden within them. The novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon does just that. The novel centers around a 15 year old genius Christopher Boone who has a mental disability of some sort, struggling with communication because of it. The book is comprised of a murder mystery novel Christopher sought to write after discovering the bloody murder of his neighbor's dog, Wellington. Gradually, the story focuses away from the main conflict and morphs into a complicated story about Christopher’s life. With that, Haddon brings out the complexity and hardships of human life, specifically through the topic of truth and deceit. The truth comes out eventually; fabricating it now will only prolong the unwanted effects later. Also, lies ruin relationships, possibly for good.

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.

Gore, Will. “A life less ordinary: Will Gore talks to Mark Haddon, who finds the remarkable in the every day.” Spectator, 14 July 2012, p. 43+. Literature Resource Centre,

This essay will be an analytical essay where the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon will be analyzed and interpreted. The focus will be on the language of the novel and the themes and messages.

The mind of an autistic person is fascinating and frightening because usually their actions can’t accurately express what their brain is thinking. It is frustrating to try and determine what a child with autism is trying to say, and often results in them being misunderstood. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon, tells the story from the perspective of Christopher Boone, a fifteen year old boy with autism. Chris is brilliant at math and science, but is unable to understand or express emotion. His difficult home life further contributes to his illness; he doesn’t have anyone at home who supports him and tries to help him. His teacher, Siobhan, is his only friend and the only person who tries to help him learn to

Chaos and order are an inherent part of life. Discuss in relation to the novel The Curious incident of a dog in the night time and The Blas Balloon.

‘How does this extract from ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' allow us to access important ideas in Haddon's novel?'

Being faced with obstacles and overcoming them despite difficulty. When it seems like there is something in the way of you reaching a goal like a barrier, you would have to find a method or come up with one to get over that barrier. A quote written by Bob Richards states that “It may sound strange but many champions are made champions by setbacks”. With this quote i am going to state the truths about it from the book “The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time” written by Mark Hadden and movie “Slumdog Millionaire”. In the book and movie, both Christopher and Jamal faced different obstacles. Life deals with facing and overcoming challenges, in order for someone to follow and keep their dreams they would have to keep them in mind and deal with the challenges.

Task: Examine the techniques used by Mark Haddon to add to our understanding of the problems facing the central character, Christopher, due to Asperger’s Syndrome.

Christopher- In the beginning of the novel Christopher finds a dog dying in Mrs. Shear’s yard when she looks to see Christopher on top off the dog she calls the police. When telling them his innocent he launches an investigation to find the person that killed the dog. Christopher and his father were very close ever science he was a child. Christopher was told that his mother died, but really the mother and the neighbor Mr. Shears had an affair. Which lead his father to tell him that she died from a heart attack. His mother has always been alive and sending him letters which his

‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time’ Autism, “ A mental condition, present from early childhood, characterized by difficulty in communicating and forming relationships with other people and in using language and abstract concepts”(Dictionary). In the novel ‘Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time’, the main character Christopher John Francis Boone tries to solve the problems throughout the book. During the book he face conflicts such as, that his father had killed the dog of Mrs. Shears. While Christopher is inspired to Sherlock Holmes, he likes detaching, and compares him self to him. From this state, he also got to find out that his mother has not passed away.

Characterisation essay The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time The novel is described in the first-individual viewpoint by Christopher John Francis Boone, a 15-year-old kid who portrays himself as "a mathematician with some behavioural challenges" living in Swindon, Wiltshire. Albeit Christopher's condition is not expressed, the book's ad spot alludes to Asperger disorder, or academic disorder. As read in the book there are different type of writing style that Haddon has written, what I means is that had on writes as if he is that character like in the book here is a bit from the book I have found :

The author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Hadden, was a genius to write this book from Christopher’s point of view. Writing the book in third person would defeat the point of the book which is to let us see the world through the eyes of Christopher. The books main plot is very basic and the mystery pretty easy to figure out. Hadden wants us to see Christopher’s way of thinking and interacting though an event that people without his disease may think of as straight forward. Another aspect the reader would miss out on are the chapters that diverge from the main plot line showing his logical way of thinking. The powerful meaning behind the novel all comes from the use of first person.

Throughout the novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, emotions are the most challenging problems of all for Christopher. However, beyond the drama of Christopher’s crises involving feeling, or interaction with other people, we glimpse a more general idea – that dealing with people and feelings is difficult. Discuss in relation to the themes and characters of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.

Writing my recent novel, The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Nighttime, was extremely interesting. The narrator and his point of view is what made my writing style so unique. I wrote this novel in the first person point of view of a teenage boy affected by Asperger’s Syndrome, Christopher Boone. Writing this novel was unlike anything else I have written. With a main character that is a mathematical genius yet fails to talk to and understand people, my style was bound to be unique. Readers get to view the world from the point of view of Christopher in a way unimaginable.