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    The curious incident of the dog in the night-time Mark Haddon Chapter 2-31 1. What characters do we meet in the first chapters of the book? He is brave‚ calm and logical‚ just like an adult. But he is also curious‚ innocent and honest‚ just like a kid. 2. Why don’t the chapters have numbers from 1 to 10 etc. Because he would like to use prime numbers. 3. Page 1: Re-read the opening paragraph. Discuss the length of the sentences. How does the length

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    About 1% of people are born with autism. Christopher Boone is born with autism. He would be part of the 1% of people. In the book of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon Christopher goes on a mission to find the murderer of the dog next door. He has a difficult time throughout the story because of him disabilities. He later finds out that it was his father who murdered the dog and he leaves because of his fright of his father to go visit his mom in the “hospital”. Christopher

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    Rain man”‚ an old and famous movie‚ is a road trip story about a selfish younger brother and an autistic older brother. In the movie‚ the older brother who had autism‚ Raymond‚ showed several autistic characteristics such as little emotional expressions or strict adherence to rules related to his everyday life. When the movie was released about thirty years ago‚ Autistic Spectrum Disorder(ASD) was not a familiar psychological disorder terminology and I had never heard of it before. However‚ recently

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    Interpretation about Autism in The curious incident of the Dog in the Night-time Simon Makin’s article about autism spectrum disorder (ASD) introduces that “core abilities involved in drama match up strikingly well with what is often described as the main triad of impairments in ASD: problems with social interaction‚ communication‚ and imagination” (Makin‚ vol 26). Willamson’s research can relate to Mark Haddon’s first person narrator –Christopher- in his novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-

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    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time Task: Examine the techniques used by Mark Haddon to add to our understanding of the problems facing the central character‚ Christopher‚ due to Asperger’s Syndrome. The novel “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time” by Mark Haddon is a very unique novel. It is unique in many ways as it’s written through the eyes of someone with Aspegers Syndrome and this condition is explored throughout the novel. The novel is about a fifteen year old

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    novel‚ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon‚ emotions are the most challenging problems of all for Christopher. However‚ beyond the drama of Christopher’s crises involving feeling‚ or interaction with other people‚ we glimpse a more general idea – that dealing with people and feelings is difficult. Discuss in relation to the themes and characters of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. In Mark Haddon’s contemporary novel‚ "The curious incident of the dog

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    grass and they can talk to you and do things that you don’t expect‚ so you have to notice everything that is in the place‚ and also you have to notice things that might happen as well.” Those are the words of Christopher‚ from Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time‚ explaining himself to why he acts and does not act a certain way. But with just that one quote‚ Christopher reveals his key abilities and disabilities‚ both physical and mental‚ of a detective. But even while having

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    Dear Ms. Gariott‚ I am on page 193 of the book‚ The Curious Incident of the Dog InThe Night-Time. Right now‚ Christopher has run away from home. He no longer trusts his dad and thinks his dad might hurt him. He no longer trusts his dad because he confessed to killing Wellington and lying about his mother’s death. Christopher also thinks his dad might hurt him because his dad grabbed him when he realized Christopher was still writing the mystery novel on the death of Wellington after he told

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    affected more by aspergers syndrome. People with Aspergers typically are more interested in objects‚ like trains‚ than they are in people. Christopher Boone compares his mind to a film as Temple Grandin compares hers to a VCR tape. In the book A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime‚ Christopher Boone talk’s bout his memory like this “My memory is like a film. That is why I am really good at remembering things…And when people ask me to remember something I can simply press Rewind and Fast Forward

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    Essay Haddon the author of “The curious incident of the dog in the night-time” uses language forms and techniques to immerse the readers into the worlds of the central characters. Haddon draws the readers into the world of Christopher and father Ed through his uses of the language forms and techniques of imagery‚ unreliable narrator and emotive language to show the audience the perspectives of the characters. The reader’s initial perspective of Christopher is that he is logical but odd. Christopher

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