Compare And Contrast Extremely Close And The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime

Both texts possess a specific structure that allows the audience to interpret the story and their respective purposes of conveying a message through a certain perspective. It can be clearly perceived how both Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Nighttime follow the same writing conventions of a journal to deliver a story from the first person perspective, and through the eyes of an autistic individual. Both texts deliver the story in the following order; orientation, issue, climax and resolution. This style of composition shared between the two texts engages and maintains the attention of the audience through the unaccustomed and distinctive of narration that both creators use. Haddon expresses Christopher’s
They both simply lack the ability to translate physical and symbolic cues expressed by the various people they encounter during their journey such as tone, allusion, subtext, and body language. Although of this circumstance, the audience however, is not blinded by their inabilities, their autistic nature allows the audience to see things that they themselves can’t, even though it is them that is doing the narrating. It is this form of dramatic irony that drives both texts and their purpose in portraying the world through the eyes of a child with autism. Additionally, this also allows the audience to interpret and foreshadow events and likewise develop a level of intimacy with the protagonists. As a result, the audience excuses Oskar and Christopher’s verbal and physical outbursts “Fukazawa you” and “I hit him” simply because of empathy towards their autistic condition. Autism as it turns out, acts a metaphor in both texts, showcasing the emotional and physical detachment expressed by Oskar and Christopher. Yet, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close sets up this metaphor in a much more deeper manner in contrast to Haddon’s novel, offering Oskar’s autism as a metaphor for the trauma he has experienced, and likewise delivering the directors purpose and message of how grief “blinds” individuals. The mystery-solving plots of both The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close articulate how their metaphorical structures seek to engage and shape the audience response towards understanding grief from a child’s autistic