The curious incident of the dog in the night time: Christopher
“Every important text challenges the reader with complex ideas and appropriate language to express them” Mark Haddon has successfully presented challenges to the reader with complex ideas by creating Christopher as the character and the narrator.
Mark Haddon was born in Northampton, England in 1962. After graduating from Oxford University in 1981, he under took a variety of jobs, including work with children and adults with mental and physical disabilities. This is were he first acquired the information about people living with
Aspergers syndrome (AS) which then made writing from Christopher's, who suffers from AS, perspective a lot more credible. The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-time is Mark Haddon’s first book for older readers and for it he won the Whitbread Book of the year in 2003.
Christopher is the main character and is seen to be the narrator within the book. This is the first challenge that the reader must comprehend, the main character is also the narrator although the novel is not depicted as a journal. Haddon has successfully done this by making the book like a persuasive game and we are tricked into thinking Christopher wrote the book. Haddon has done this by using particular language, characterisation and making the book seem personal to
Christopher, such as making the numbers of the chapters only prime numbers because they are
Christopher's favourite numbers. This makes Christopher seem like the boss of the book and makes it feel more personal. Haddon also does this by including interludes within the book, which give the reader a chance to get to know Christopher on a personal level and understand his life out side of the main story line.
Haddon uses language as a point of manipulation to trick us into thinking that Christopher is the narrator. The language resembles one of a child with AS. It reflects the values, attitudes and experiences of Christopher. The novel begins with many straightforward and simple descriptions, such as when
Mark Haddon was born in Northampton, England in 1962. After graduating from Oxford University in 1981, he under took a variety of jobs, including work with children and adults with mental and physical disabilities. This is were he first acquired the information about people living with
Aspergers syndrome (AS) which then made writing from Christopher's, who suffers from AS, perspective a lot more credible. The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-time is Mark Haddon’s first book for older readers and for it he won the Whitbread Book of the year in 2003.
Christopher is the main character and is seen to be the narrator within the book. This is the first challenge that the reader must comprehend, the main character is also the narrator although the novel is not depicted as a journal. Haddon has successfully done this by making the book like a persuasive game and we are tricked into thinking Christopher wrote the book. Haddon has done this by using particular language, characterisation and making the book seem personal to
Christopher, such as making the numbers of the chapters only prime numbers because they are
Christopher's favourite numbers. This makes Christopher seem like the boss of the book and makes it feel more personal. Haddon also does this by including interludes within the book, which give the reader a chance to get to know Christopher on a personal level and understand his life out side of the main story line.
Haddon uses language as a point of manipulation to trick us into thinking that Christopher is the narrator. The language resembles one of a child with AS. It reflects the values, attitudes and experiences of Christopher. The novel begins with many straightforward and simple descriptions, such as when