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    Night Time Tour

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    more at the sea where the sunset splattered colors of red and orange on the rough surface of blue and violet. Although the boardwalk was lively with smells of French fries and the cries of seagulls, I nuzzled into the car seat and waited for the Night Time Tour to begin. I absolutely loved long car rides; it was the perfect excuse to let idle thoughts roam and to isolate myself from the world. I only observed the outside through the window of the family van, my personal theater. The images that flashed

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    Moreover, death had a large effect on the journeys in both Night and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, and both Eliezer and Christopher were determined to prevent its effect as much as they could. Throughout Mark Haddon’s, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Christopher struggled greatly with the devastating obstacle of death. First with Wellington, and then with his mother, Christopher was surrounded with loss yet insisted on continuing his life. As a generally logical

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    Dog In The Night-Time

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    Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon shows us a look on one situation through three very unique people. The story contains many moments that give you a look at the characters motives. Such moments are when judy leaves the family because she can't handle Christopher (pg 106) or when Ed told Christopher that he was the one killed wellington (pg 121). A big moment is when Christopher decides to run away (pg 122) also when christopher sees his mom for the first time in two years (pg 190).

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    Dog In The Night-Time

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    How Does the Teller Change The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time? Through the crime fiction novel, ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”, by Mark Haddon, the readers are able to feel connected with the protagonist, Christopher John Francis Boone, who speaks in first person subjective. The readers are engaged in the unique form and narrative techniques of the mystery novel. The novel alternates between a chapter about the murder mystery, and a chapter in which Christopher

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    The Curious Night-Time

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    The book I will be arguing about is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. This novel is about a boy named Christopher who is different from average people, meaning he is autistic, he lives with his father and his mother is supposedly dead. His mission is to ascertain who murdered Wellington , neighbor's dog, and throughout the book he revealed things he was not supposed to know about. As you read you notice the challenges he has to face in order to get to where he wants

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    Dog In The Night-Time

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    The Novel “The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night-Time”, written by Mark Haddon uses various language features to explores different perspectives. The protagonist of the novel a young boy named Christopher, who is living with Asperger’s. The novel is written in his unique perspective. Haddon does this through the use of first person narration, tone and juxtaposing perspectives. Through the novel Haddon uses first person narration and tone to create Christopher’s unique perspective on the world

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    Dog In The Night-Time

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    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, as written by Mark Haddon, provides an astounding narrative that is more unique than any other. Told from the point of view from Christopher, a special needs fifteen-year old, Haddon tells the story in which Christopher goes on a journey to discover how and why the neighborhood dog was killed, and as a result discovers much more about his own world. The events that happen in the book are extraordinary circumstances. After all, a boy doesn’t find

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    Dog In The Night-Time

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    In the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Christopher’s perspective exceedingly impacts the narrative of the story. Christopher makes many decisions that the reader would not expect a teenager to do, and this alters the story to make it much more unusual. First of all, Christopher’s decision to pick up the dog has an impression on the whole story and what happens along the way, most people would not go up to a bleeding dog furthermore, pick it up; however, Christopher explains

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    the curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon, follows Christopher Boone, a boy born with Aspergers, as his world comes crashing down when a shady secret from his dad’s past is revealed. Christopher's story starts in the Silver Age, when Christopher is found in his neighbor’s yard standing over her dead dog, Wellington. Christopher is apprehended by the police and questioned about what happened to the dog, but Christopher has no idea, and thinks about tracking down the killer of

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    THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT- TIME by Mark Haddon 1) Christopher has a disability that doesn´t appear written in the book which is a milder autism spectrum disorder (ASD) called Asperger Syndrome that makes it difficult for him to understand social behaviour like body language and other forms of human interaction (eye contact, facial expressions, posture, gesture). He doesn´t know the small quirks of language that we take for granted: the sarcasm, the irony, the turns of phrases

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