adult world‚ was winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year prize‚ and was listed for the Booker Prize. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time introduces a unique voice in the narrator‚ Christopher‚ who is a 15-year-old boy with Asperger’s Syndrome. Christopher is gifted in mathematics‚ especially solving mathematical puzzles‚ but human emotions are beyond his grasp. When a neighbour’s dog is murdered‚ he decides to solve the mystery by treating it as a mathematical puzzle‚ with far-reaching
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Diversity in Life Throughout the novel‚ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time‚ emotions are the most challenging problems of all for Christopher. Christopher Boone is a mathematically fifteen year old gifted boy with Asperser’s syndrome. The syndrome enables him to see the world only through his limited perspective‚ which is closed‚ frightened and disoriented. For Christopher‚ the desire for logic and order is actually a necessity of living: “as he suffers from Asperser’s Syndrome‚
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The novel "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" isn ’t just a young autistic boy ’s story. Whilst it does describe the protagonist Christopher Boone ’s "reality"‚ the narrative is much deeper. The issues that surround Christopher are vital to the storyline‚ providing a complexity that suggests the "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" is far from simple. While a major part of the novel‚ autism is not the only theme explored. In addition to autism itself‚ the effects of
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In the novel‚ A Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night-Time‚ Christopher Boone succeeds in his endeavor of escaping the restraining oppression of dependency by finding solace in physical confinement. This story‚ at its core is a coming of age novel illustrating a teenage boy’s struggle for independence‚ in which enclosure is a requirement for freedom. There is a juxtaposition presented between Christopher’s yearning for autonomy and his coping mechanism of placing himself into restraining
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The Perfect Family What is a perfect family? In the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon‚ the family of a 15 year-old boy is broken and disproportionate. He is ignorant as to what goes on in his family because family related issues are kept hidden from him. Similarly‚ in Hamlet by William Shakespeare‚ the families that are discussed in the play deal with multiple issues as well. In both texts‚ family is a vital theme but is portrayed in a negative way. Haddon and
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Book Report: “The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime” The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime is a novel by Mark Haddon. The Story is told through the perspective of an intelligent fifteen-year-old boy with autism who includes a variety of clever visuals to enhance his narrative. The boy Christopher Boone narrates this novel after finding his neighbor’s black poodle‚ Wellingtion‚ mudered with a garden fork. The book is Christopher’s account of his investigation‚ and as he gets
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This interesting book called ‘’The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime’’ written by Mark Haddon in 2003‚ puts the readers into a totally different world by putting them into the skin of an autistic character.‘’The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime’’ was actually meant to be the title of Christopher boone’s diary‚ who discovered his neighbor’s dog Wellington stabbed by a garden fork‚ laying on the street. Christopher spontaneously decides to be the detective of this bizarre case
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Title The novel The Curious Incident of a Dog in The Nighttime by Mark Haddon is about a 15 year old Autistic boy Christopher and his finding of a dead dog which is owned by a neighbour. The death and his enjoyment of mystery novels leads him to start writing and investigating the death of Wellington the dog‚ with the sole purpose of finding out who had murdered the dog and solving other family issue on the way. Christopher has written book as a detective novel and he does fulfill the expectations
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Mark Haddon‚ the author of the 2003 best seller book the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time‚ was born in Northampton‚ England‚ 1962 (Ewing). He was a son of an architect father and homemaker mother (Ewing). In his early life‚ he was interested in math and science (Terry). As he attended college‚ he realized his love of English literature and attainted B.S degree at Oxford University in 1981(Ewing). After graduation‚ he volunteered to be a home caregiver for a multiple sclerosis patient
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The Book‚ Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime‚ was written by Mark Haddon in 2003‚ which was later rewritten for a stage adaption by Simon Stephens in 2015. The Story follows a young boy‚ Christopher in his efforts to solve the murder of his neighbor’s dog‚ who struggles to deal with the people around him and his inability to process social constructs and human emotion. The author of the book Haddon‚ doesn’t establish the autism Christopher has in order to allow the audience to not immediately
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