Like I said before, this chapter is mainly to bring the story back to life. Mrs Alexander having this information gives Christopher the impetus to go forward and carry on his investigation. Although Christopher doesn’t usually talk to strangers, he kicks the habit because Mrs Alexander says she as some information about his mum for him and what happened to the dog. Also this contradicts and makes Christopher an hypocrite to what he said earlier on in the book. He states that he cant tell lies, yet he tells his father that he wont carry on with investigation and as soon as Mrs Alexander lets him know that she has some information about his investigation, then he turns straight back too it.
Eidson influenced my first impressions of Nat Swanson by persuading me to believe he was a bad and lonely character from the start of the novel. Eidson clearly demonstrates Nat Swanson as a lone ranger, a one-man gang and a loner in this story. At first Eidson reflects on Nat Swanson’s history to reflect his characteristics. Nat Swanson lost his whole family in an incident involving Comanche’s at a young age and was passed around foster homes. He felt abandoned because he also knew himself that he was only taken in by family for his work ethics but not for the caring and love of a child.
Discuss how the composer has effectively communicated both/either distinctive characters and distinctive themes in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” In Mark Haddon’s Curious incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Curious) he uses distinctive characters and distinctive themes that are present throughout this novel through literary forms and features. Haddon has used an interesting narrative structure to show effects of Christopher Boone as the distinctive narrator. Haddon has used the theme of the relationships connected to Christopher and his dysfunctional family in the novel that ultimately portrays the world around Christopher. Haddon also subverts the distinctive genre of detective fiction which is the only fiction Christopher can grasp which helps allow Christopher to come to conclusions. Through a close study of the narrative structure, relationships and detective fiction the reader will gain a better understanding of the distinctive elements of this novel.
Meursault is the complete opposite; he lives in the moment and goes along with things without thinking them through. He is neither a controlling nor an overly organised man and seems to live with the basic necessities. Significant events like marriage or a parent’s death would normally have a massive impact on the individual person, but for Meursault, this is not so. Significant events such as these do not seem to matter to him on any sort of sentimental level. For example, he did not react how people expected him to over his mother’s death in the beginning of the book, instead of being
Christopher thinks he uses logic in every decision, however looking at some of his actions they are in fact irrational. An example of is illogical thinking is when he runs away from home. Christopher is convinced that his father will murder him and is now afraid to be in the same house. Christopher also makes decisions that are rational to him and explains them to his readers. For example, Christopher shows his reasoning for his favourite colours.
Bruno’s Mother is equally the blame for Bruno’s death as his Father because at the start she wouldn’t tell him where and why they were moving away from their house in Berlin, Germany. Because she wouldn’t tell him, it made him curious and wanted to explore around. Before moving to Out-with, Bruno’s Grandmother knew what her son would have to do, so she didn’t want him to go to Out-with in the first place, and she had said it was no place for young children to go, and because Bruno had no idea what was happening he had asked his father. But his father should have sat him down and explained what was happening, but Bruno didn’t know what his father’s job was so he was unable to say anything. While at Out-With, in Poland, Bruno’s mother payed hardly any attention to him, she would
In his review of The Curious Incident, Jay McInerney suggests that at the novel’s end “the gulf between Christopher and his parents, between Christopher and the rest of us, remains immense and mysterious. And that gulf is ultimately the source of this novel’s haunting impact. Christopher Boone is an unsolved mystery” [The New York Times Book Review, 6/15/03, p. 5)]. Discuss. _________________________________________________________ Mark Haddon’s novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is a remarkable novel exploring the world of Christopher, a fifteen-year-old boy with Aspergers Syndrome.
He is unable to socially interact with people but has a gift in mathematics. He is very dependent on his parents and teachers. It is often hard for him to do things on his own or leave his comfort zone. But soon enough Christopher is called into adventure when he discovers the neighbor’s dog, Wellington, run through with a garden fork, and he decides to take up the quest of who killed Wellington. This quest leads him to discover his mother’s letters and that his father has been lying to him.
In the novel The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time we learn about a young boy with autism. From the point of view of this young autistic boy we learn that family and love don`t always make sense in what seems is complete logic, but it doesn`t need to make complete sense to make a family work. Christopher, the young autistic boy, likes logic and everything to make sense so he knows and understands how everything works. He also doesn`t like change and has trouble dealing with it but as his life goes on, he learns how to deal with his struggle. We know Christopher likes logic and everything to make sense.
AGONCILLO 1 Marie Agoncillo John Patterson English 12 Jan/28/14 The Curious Incident Dog in the Night-time Themes The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon is an allusion to the Sherlock Holmes mystery The Adventure of Silver Blaze. One can say that Haddon’s novel is a double mystery. The first mystery is the murder of Mrs. Shears’ dog and the second mystery deals with the absence of his mother. Trust is quite a common theme in any modern novel; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, for example, demonstrates how trust affects individuals who live under unusual circumstances. Haddon narrates through Christopher, who is a fifteen-year-old autistic young boy whose view of life and his perception of the world is considerably dissimilar from that of any other normal teenager.