The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- Time as a Postmodern Novel The promising and celebrated British Writer‚ Mark Haddon’s mystery narrative‚ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- Time explores the story of a 15 year old boy who manages to scrutinize the murder of his neighbour’s dog. What is special and particular about the book is that it features the first-person standpoint of the hero who has a social disability. The hero‚ Christopher appears as an autistic individual who lacks
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The Curious Incident of the dog of the night-time written by mark haddon contains many ideas and concepts which make this piece memorable. Through the interaction and representation of ideas‚ Mark Haddon not only has composed a great novel‚ but a memorable one. From the very start of the book the most memorabele concept shown is that in fact‚ chapter one is lableled chapter two. This gives insight into mark haddens uniqe style of writing. This also give insight into christophers personality and
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time‚ the character Christopher’s father is the most influential character to Christopher because he is loving and can be intimidating which causes Christopher to run away and find his mom. Throughout the book The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time there were many ups and downs. Christopher and his father went through a lot‚ but Christopher’s father is very loving. Many times in the book Christopher and his dad have had many loving times and
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6. Which scenes are comical in this novel‚ and why are they funny? Are these situations also sad‚ or exasperating? There are lots of funny scenes and quotes in this book‚ most of them are related to the main character‚ Christopher. It already starts with his introduction: "My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries of the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7‚507." (page 2). It’s a strange way of introducing yourself and therefore I found it funny
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a 2003 mystery novel by a british writer Mark Haddon. This was his first book and in the same year as it was first published‚ he won the Whitbread Book Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year. In 2004 he got another prize for his book‚ namely the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Overall Best First Book and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. The 15 years old narrator of the story‚ Christopher John Francis Boone‚ suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome
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Challenges Faced by Christopher Boone Christopher Boone is an autistic child who is the main character of the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Time by Mark Haddon. An individual must overcome difficult challenges in order to gain a sense of maturity. This will be demonstrated by examining Christopher Boone’s ability to learn to be persistent and to learn from his mistakes. He learns to be persistent by finding the killer of Wellington. He learns from his mistakes by taking a train to
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Christopher‚ and his mental condition alters the storyline drastically‚ this whole story practically would not happen if the character of Christopher is not on the autism spectrum. In the novel‚ Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time‚ by Mark Haddon‚ Christopher is holding his neighbors dead dog‚ stabbed by a pitchfork. He then spends the majority of the book trying to find out who the killer is. He eventually digs too deep and finds the lies about his mother and his father‚ leading to
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Irony is a figure of speech that has an intentional meaning different from what the words would mean literally‚ and could also refer to an unexpected twist in the plot. In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon‚ irony is used a few times‚ especially since Christopher does detective work that he hides from his father. This is called dramatic irony because the reader knows somethimg that another character doesn’t. "... I heard Father come out in the garden and call out‚
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Is uniqueness and originality in a novel enough to make one great? I believe that in order for this to be the case both need to be executed well. Mark Haddon in his novel‚ ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time’ (‘Curious Incident’) executes uniqueness in such a way that it successfully creates empathy and understanding in the reader. This is done through the unique voice of the narrator who is a child with Aspergers. Haddon’s novel is not a narrative concerned with ‘overcoming’ a disability
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In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time‚ by Mark Haddon‚ Christopher shows he has high self-esteem because he feels he is better than other people. He says how Sherlock Holmes is great by knowing “‘ The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes’ But he notices them‚ like I do”(73). Since Christopher is saying how Sherlock and he can observe unlike everyone else‚ he is saying how he thinks he is better than them. Next Christopher also compares himself to
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