The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
This Is not a proper novel. There are too many pictures, diagrams and digressions. What do they have to do with the telling of Christopher’s book?
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time by Mark Haddon, challenges the idea of a traditional or as mentioned ‘proper novel’, this is done to highlight the unfortunate effects of Asperger’s syndrome and to make note that not everybody can be placed into one single category. The use of numerous pictures, diagrams and digressions all work well together to portray an enhanced amount of knowledge and understanding of Christopher’s very literal world. Each of these visual representations have quite a large impact in the telling of Christopher’s book, they are there to help us readers visualize what Christopher is facing, and to demonstrate how he struggles and cannot put what he is seeing in front of him or dealing with into words like any other normal person could.
Mark Haddon implies a ‘proper novel’ is a book, which contains traditional text, structure and doesn’t display diagrams in it. The word novel in an oxford dictionary is defined as ‘a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism’.
This definition demonstrates that ‘The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time’, is therefore a proper novel, it is a fictitious prose, meaning made up text. The Oxfords definition also states that a novel has some degree of realism. An example of realism in the novel would be when Christopher accepts that his father had lied to him about his own mother, but is willing to deal with it accordingly. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time is a proper novel although it is structured oddly, it still contains a degree of realism and is a made up text. It definitely challenges the idea of a proper novel with the use of pictures, diagrams and digressions displayed throughout the text.
Each of these visual representations show the unique way
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time by Mark Haddon, challenges the idea of a traditional or as mentioned ‘proper novel’, this is done to highlight the unfortunate effects of Asperger’s syndrome and to make note that not everybody can be placed into one single category. The use of numerous pictures, diagrams and digressions all work well together to portray an enhanced amount of knowledge and understanding of Christopher’s very literal world. Each of these visual representations have quite a large impact in the telling of Christopher’s book, they are there to help us readers visualize what Christopher is facing, and to demonstrate how he struggles and cannot put what he is seeing in front of him or dealing with into words like any other normal person could.
Mark Haddon implies a ‘proper novel’ is a book, which contains traditional text, structure and doesn’t display diagrams in it. The word novel in an oxford dictionary is defined as ‘a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism’.
This definition demonstrates that ‘The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time’, is therefore a proper novel, it is a fictitious prose, meaning made up text. The Oxfords definition also states that a novel has some degree of realism. An example of realism in the novel would be when Christopher accepts that his father had lied to him about his own mother, but is willing to deal with it accordingly. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time is a proper novel although it is structured oddly, it still contains a degree of realism and is a made up text. It definitely challenges the idea of a proper novel with the use of pictures, diagrams and digressions displayed throughout the text.
Each of these visual representations show the unique way