Analysis Of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime By Mark Haddon
Order in the Chaos
In the novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon, Christopher John Francis Boone struggles to realize that the world isn't as structured as he had believed. Christopher is a child with special needs who dislikes many things such as being touched, France, and the colour brown. Throughout the story, Christopher decides to investigate the death of his neighbour’s dog, Wellington. {PUT HIS FATHER LYING IN HERE SOMEWHERE}In a turn of events, he embarks on a will-testing journey to find the truth. On this journey, Christopher realizes that the way he views the world is flawed and reality is much more chaotic. {Find a way to fit your three topics}
At the beginning of the story, Christopher tries to
understand the world by using logic. He follows schedules, decides what kind of day it will be by counting the numbers of colored cars, and gets really upset when things happen unexpectedly. When christopher is confronted by the police, he remarks that he “like[s] the police. They have uniforms and number and you know what they are meant to be doing” instead of being frightened, implying that Christopher has difficulty understanding other people because he doesn’t know “what they are meant to be doing”(6). Over the course of the story, we find that Christopher experiences a number of destabilizing events, such as learning that his father had fed him lies about his mother’s affair. This reveals that the way Christopher has been viewing things have completely blinded both him and the reader to the complexity of his family’s inter-relationships. {Find a way to flesh out this paragraph and further explain how this proves your thesis. Essence? Christopher Trying to understand the world through numbers}
As the story peaks, Christopher learns that his father had been hiding his mother’s affair from him and that he is the killer of wellington. His father tries to calm Christopher but instead makes it worse. “I had to get out of the house. Father had murdered Wellington. That meant he could murder me,” {Change the wording or content of this area to fit with your argument.}Christopher states, implying that he didn’t understand his father’s intentions. Throughout the novel, many of the characters become irritated with Christopher because of the difficulty they have communicating with him. He doesn’t {get} body language, facial expressions, or metaphors making it extremely difficult for him to understand other’s feelings or instructions. This means that he tends to take things very literally as things that have indepth meaning like body language, or metaphors make him feel confused and uneasy
In the novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon, Christopher John Francis Boone struggles to realize that the world isn't as structured as he had believed. Christopher is a child with special needs who dislikes many things such as being touched, France, and the colour brown. Throughout the story, Christopher decides to investigate the death of his neighbour’s dog, Wellington. {PUT HIS FATHER LYING IN HERE SOMEWHERE}In a turn of events, he embarks on a will-testing journey to find the truth. On this journey, Christopher realizes that the way he views the world is flawed and reality is much more chaotic. {Find a way to fit your three topics}
At the beginning of the story, Christopher tries to
understand the world by using logic. He follows schedules, decides what kind of day it will be by counting the numbers of colored cars, and gets really upset when things happen unexpectedly. When christopher is confronted by the police, he remarks that he “like[s] the police. They have uniforms and number and you know what they are meant to be doing” instead of being frightened, implying that Christopher has difficulty understanding other people because he doesn’t know “what they are meant to be doing”(6). Over the course of the story, we find that Christopher experiences a number of destabilizing events, such as learning that his father had fed him lies about his mother’s affair. This reveals that the way Christopher has been viewing things have completely blinded both him and the reader to the complexity of his family’s inter-relationships. {Find a way to flesh out this paragraph and further explain how this proves your thesis. Essence? Christopher Trying to understand the world through numbers}
As the story peaks, Christopher learns that his father had been hiding his mother’s affair from him and that he is the killer of wellington. His father tries to calm Christopher but instead makes it worse. “I had to get out of the house. Father had murdered Wellington. That meant he could murder me,” {Change the wording or content of this area to fit with your argument.}Christopher states, implying that he didn’t understand his father’s intentions. Throughout the novel, many of the characters become irritated with Christopher because of the difficulty they have communicating with him. He doesn’t {get} body language, facial expressions, or metaphors making it extremely difficult for him to understand other’s feelings or instructions. This means that he tends to take things very literally as things that have indepth meaning like body language, or metaphors make him feel confused and uneasy