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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
In Mark Haddon's novel "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime," the protagonist Christopher describes himself as a "mathematician with some behavioral difficulties." It is implied...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Haddon presents Christopher as courageous because Christopher is willing to go beyond his usual boundaries to find out the truth about who killed Wellington, the dog, and about what happened to his...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
He really follows a lot of routine as best he can, and he concentrates on very practical steps he can take to avoid having behavioral problems. He is aware of how he tends to react, so he tried to...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon's 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is about a high-functioning autistic 15-year-old boy named Christopher whose search for the killer of his neighbor's dog...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
In the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, author Mark Haddon's writing style stands out because he intentionally employs many methods to develop Christopher's voice and...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Siobhan is a minor character in the book, however, she is incredibly important to Christopher. She is his teacher at school, but she also helps to provide guidance for him that he clearly listens...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Christopher has some fairly normal reactions to his mother's death, and many more abnormal reactions - at least according to how most people would react. What is "normal" and "abnormal" is...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
In the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, we can learn much from Christopher about the truth. For a young man like Christopher with all the disabilities autism implies,...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Thee are so many inspiring parts. Christopher is such a cool boy. He has many "quirks" but has a logical reason for allof them and they DO make sense. He is resilient. He is resilient when he has...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
In this novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time with an autistic boy at its center, Christopher presents a challenge for everyone around him. One experience which is like first...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Christopher's father has modeled some positive characteristics that may have influenced Christopher. Most importantly, the dad never quit. He never gave up on Christopher and never left him alone,...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time" is primarily known as a story about an autistic boy and about the structure of his world and the way he makes sense of things around him. So...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Christopher's mother left Christopher and her husband to live with her lover, the neighbor across the street. She, thus, has abandoned her son and her family. On a number of occasions she admits...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
You might talk about direct and indirect character development, discussing how much of Christopher's character is revealed directly through the narrator's comments (in this case of first person...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Christopher is the appealing and sympathetic autistic teenager who is the protagonist and tells us the story from his point of view. Because of the first person narrative, it is his character that...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
I think it is a little bit of both. Clearly Mr. Boone has pent up anger over his wife leaving; he killed a dog because of it! He is angry about the affair, as anyone would be. Punishing his wife...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Check out this site. It's the first I found, but I'm sure there are more. Good luck:-)
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Actually, depending on how you look at it, Christopher's condition as having autism makes him probably one of the most truthful narrators you could possibly imagine. He himself says that he cannot...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
I Think he's reliable because Christopher can not tell a lie. Meanig that whatever he wrote is true. Also, he's very deatiled when decribing something.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is primarily about the importance of self-discovery. Christopher goes on a mission to find out who killed his neighbor's dog Wellington,...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
I can address the idea of Christopher as an unreliable narrator. There are many instances in the novel when the reader can piece together more of the situation than Christopher himself. For...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
One lesson is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world and there are many ways to live a human life. Many have the idea that there is a "norm" about how we should live, and how we...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
As Christopher is the most strung-out and high-tensioned character in the book (because of Aspergers' Syndrome), he is hardly in a position to teach others the "zen attitude." However, Christopher...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Although the word 'autism' never appears in the text, Christopher talks about his problems and the fact that he is seeing a therapist. His fixation on numbers and his inability to screen out...
