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    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- time

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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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    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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    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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    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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    In “The Curious Incident of the Dog at Nighttime” by Mark Graham he uses continuous similar syntax to create and establish a style to his work. In the story the escape of a young person is revealed as he narrates it from his indecision of leaving the train at London‚ to his hiding in a shelf and his anxiety to get his bag. The narrator often finds himself in uncomfortable situation such as when he was found by one of the people that got off the train and by the lady in the yellow water proof coat

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    none which is what most scientists would explain for the existence of religion‚ just an explanation for the way things are as well as a sense of security for people. When first introduced to Christopher Boone in the novel‚ "The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime" his dismissive attitude towards religion seems to be nothing more than the common atheist expressing their belief that the idea of a God is a ridiculous one and nothing other than fictional‚ but as the story continues Christopher

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    In the book “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” by Mark Haddon the main character is Christopher Boone who is a 15 year old boy. His mother ran away with his neighbor Mr. Shears and then Christopher’s dad and Mrs. Shears try out a romance too. However Mrs. Shears backs out though‚ so Christopher’s father kills her dog with a pitch fork. Then being the animal lover and curious person he is‚ wants to investigate the death of the dog. Christopher’s investigation was provoked by Mr. and

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    Describe an important event. Explain how this helped you understand the idea. The novel ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time’ by Mark Haddon is set in modern day Swindon‚ in England. An important event in this story is when Christopher finds letters that his mother had sent to him ‚ therefore finding out that his mother had not died. This leads to him leaving to London to find his mother‚ and his dad confessing about killing Wellington. This helped me understand the idea because

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    In the Novel‚ The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon‚ we are shown that the truth is not always accurate and that lies are sometimes necessary. Christopher Boone is a 15 year old who has Asperger’s Syndrome‚ which lies in the Autism Spectrum. Due to this condition Christopher does not understand emotion‚ metaphors – which he considers a lie – and knows all the prime numbers up to 7‚507 as well as all the countries and cities of the world. Christopher’s life revolves around

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