The curious incident of the dog in the night time‚ a Bildungsroman novel written by Mark Haddon. It is about a fifteen year old boy‚ Christopher‚ who is really good in science and maths. He has Asperger’s syndrome and therefore doesn’t understand people. He finds his neighbour’s dog lying dead on the lawn so he decides to unveil the killer of the dog. As he embarks on the journey to solve this mystery‚ he gets to know a lot about his family affairs and lies about others that were living around them
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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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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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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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Then Curious Incident Of the Dog In The Night- Time by Mark Haddon‚ adapted by Simon Stephens‚ takes us to Londan in the twentith century. The main character is boy named Christopher Boone‚ who is autist. He is very blunt and always honest and akward. You Christopher awkardness and honesty in the scene when he is arrested‚ this police is talking to him and he just is blunt as page 6 says “ And what precisely are you doing in the garden? I am talking to you… why were you holding the dog ? I like
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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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Essay: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon To what extent is Christopher’s condition responsible for the conflict the arise in the curious incident of the dog in the night-time? 1. Underline the keyword To what extent: How far or how much Christopher’s condition: Asperger autism Responsible: Blamed for cause Conflict: problems or difficulties - reverse: good things 2. Rewrite the Question: How far is Christopher’s Asperger syndrome to blame for problems that occur in
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3R Response – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon Retelling The novel‚ “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time‚” is narrated by a 15 year old boy with a form of autism named Christopher Boone. It is about his search for order and stability in his life and how he copes with situations that lack this. At the beginning of the story‚ Christopher discovers that his neighbour’s dog‚ Wellington‚ has been murdered. He decides to solve the mystery of Wellington’s
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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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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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