Examples/Techniques:
“I am going to prove that im not stupid. Next month I am going to take my A level in maths and im going to get an A grade” / Hadden creates a character with huge contrasts to show the complexity of Asperses.
“and now if I don’t know what someone is saying I ask them what they mean or walk away” / Direct speech
“I think it should be called a lie because a pig is not like a day” / direct speech to show the complications.
What is a distinctive idea explored in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon? Explain how this idea is developed through the novel.
The Curious Incident of the dog in the night time composed by Mark Haddon is an exceptional text that explores the ideas of how different perspectives show the different ways the world can be experienced. Haddon’s text follows a young boy named Christopher Boone with the uniquely complex disease, aspergers, “aspergers” and as he does this he conveys the way someone seeing the world differently can generate different life perspectives. Chris is unable to understand human emotion and figurative language and which Haddon cleverly uses this perspective with techniques like using contrast and voicing character’s views with direct speech to allow the reader to access the syndrome that is common but rarely understood.
Haddon creates a character with huge contrasts to show the complexities of his Aspergers syndrome. Haddon uses characterisation to portray the complexity of Christopher says “I am going to prove that I’m not stupid. “Next month I am going to take my A level in maths and I’m going to get an A grade”. Christopher has an amazing talent in maths and has an exceptional photographic memory. This helps the audience to understand the inner conflicts that Chris has because of the syndrome and understand the huge contrasts between someone that can’t understand simple things that most people take for