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    The first person narration in the perspective of an autistic child, Christopher Boone, in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon drives a balance between naivety and innocence. This affects how the reader views not only people with autism but it also affects the level of compassion that they have for others. With the novel being written in the perspective of an autistic child, it causes the reader to feel insignificant and dismissed. A quote that shows how people dismiss

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    Discovering that a family member is alive after being told that they are deceased and finding a dead dog late at night in a neighbor's backyard could lead to some investigation. In the novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, written by Mark Haddon Christopher John Francis Boone, the main character who is a fifteen year old autistic boy, has many internal and external conflicts. Including, his inability to control and express his mood, lack of being able to interpret other people’s

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    Haddon explores personal challenges through his extensive use of first person perspective. He wrote “The Curious incident of the Dog in the night time” to show how one sees the world in a different aspect, and being an outsider. Haddon also explains that he did not know much about the autism spectrum and aspergers when writing the book. The books narrator is 15 year old Christopher with aspergers syndrome, the book never explicitly states this specifically besides two points in the book. In the book

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    In the Novel, The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, we are shown that the truth is not always accurate and that lies are sometimes necessary. Christopher Boone is a 15 year old who has Asperger’s Syndrome, which lies in the Autism Spectrum. Due to this condition Christopher does not understand emotion, metaphors – which he considers a lie – and knows all the prime numbers up to 7,507 as well as all the countries and cities of the world. Christopher’s life revolves around

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    In Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, the character father is an important character because he is dishonest and concerned which causes Christopher to run away from him. Father is dishonest which makes Christopher run away from father in fear that father might kill Christopher. Christopher is doing detective work to try to find out who killed Wellington, and father takes Christopher's book because father does not want Christopher to be writing this book. Christopher finds

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    In the story The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Christopher travels around England in search of his mother. During Christopher’s journey he encounters many problems that force Christopher to go outside out of his comfort zone and mature. Christopher is forced to talk to strangers, practice self control and learns how to be forgiving because of his journey. Christopher began the story as a child who is dependent on others, during the course of Christopher’s journey Christopher

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    In the novel The Curious incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime, the plot portrays various themes that convey the importance of individuality and distinction from others, which challenges the readers to open themselves toward differing perspectives of the world around them. Through the use of dialogue and textual features, author Mark Haddon presents his readers with an opportunity to explore the greater concept of being different and how interpreting Christopher’s life as well as his distinctive opinions

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    Christopher John Francis Boone is the fifteen-year-old protagonist who narrates the novel “ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”. Even though it doesn’t refer in the book, Christopher has probably Asperger’s Syndrome which makes social attraction hard for him. An abnormal teenager who is incapable of telling lies, on account of that he deals with the world in a unique way. The qualities that I anticipate best sum up the main character are; doesn’t understand people, anti-social, highly

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    Imagine being afraid to talk to anyone that you don’t personally know, or needing a perfectly laid out schedule to feel structure in life. Those are some things that people with Asperger's can deal with daily. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was written by author Mark Haddon. The story is told by the perspective of the main character Christopher. Christopher is fifteen years old and lives with Asperger's, he struggles to make social connections and can't stand people touching him

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    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a fictional novel written by Mark Haddon. The main character, Christopher, is diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome therefore sees the world from a very different perspective than the readers. One of his characteristics due to his illness is that he can't stand lies and almost always tells the truth. Since he always wants to know the truth, he tries to solve the mystery of the dog next door which was killed with a garden fork. However, he gets way

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