The Role Of Death In The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time
Death is a universal and prevalent, yet incomprehensible phenomenon across the world that plays a significant role in the beginning and throughout The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The autistic, stolid, logical Christopher is surrounded by death throughout the entirety of the book and acts unaffected and unknowing because of his incapacity to comprehend death or sympathize with others. Christopher’s logical mind presumably makes him lead to the conclusion that the afterlife is impossible. Christopher not understanding the afterlife symbolizes the world’s view of how people regard death as a mystery. From the beginning of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the neighbor’s dog, Wellington marks the start of the
book with his gruesome death by being stabbed by a pitch fork pinning him to the ground, indicating from Christopher his unaffected reaction and personality. Wellington’s end symbolizes the start of a new beginning while still being easily forgotten by others around him as well as his death symbolizing society attempting to pin down what death is.
In the world today the majority of people have such a cold, mechanical response to the demise of friends, family members or significant others. Most of the time when someone dies you go to a memorial service, mourn ,forget and put aside the diseased. People act this way for the same reason a Christopher they don't understand the afterlife and don’t think it is logical. For the same reason Christopher was not distraught by the fact that he did not attend his mother’s funeral. Christopher’s logical mind is unbelieving of supernatural beings and occurrences and unconcerned with hypotheticals; this way that Christopher reacts reflects that of the world by not thinking twice about those who have passed away. This connection from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time exemplifies the the coldness of humanity much life the way Christopher is unaffected by many things.
book with his gruesome death by being stabbed by a pitch fork pinning him to the ground, indicating from Christopher his unaffected reaction and personality. Wellington’s end symbolizes the start of a new beginning while still being easily forgotten by others around him as well as his death symbolizing society attempting to pin down what death is.
In the world today the majority of people have such a cold, mechanical response to the demise of friends, family members or significant others. Most of the time when someone dies you go to a memorial service, mourn ,forget and put aside the diseased. People act this way for the same reason a Christopher they don't understand the afterlife and don’t think it is logical. For the same reason Christopher was not distraught by the fact that he did not attend his mother’s funeral. Christopher’s logical mind is unbelieving of supernatural beings and occurrences and unconcerned with hypotheticals; this way that Christopher reacts reflects that of the world by not thinking twice about those who have passed away. This connection from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time exemplifies the the coldness of humanity much life the way Christopher is unaffected by many things.