The Need of Control and Stability in the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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| | | | | The Need of Control and Stability as it Applies to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time The Need of Control and Stability as it Applies to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a novel, narrated from a first person perspective, the protagonist, Christopher Boone. Christopher Boone is a mathematically and logically oriented 15 year old boy, living in Swindon (England), who experiences numerous behavioral difficulties, including understanding other people’s emotions/ motifs, always sticking to his schedule, and having the need to control the situations he is in; these are all due to his condition, which you can call, Asperger’s Syndrome, High Functioning Autism, or the Savant Syndrome. One day his world is threatened with the death of a neighbor’s dog, which then causes Christopher to investigate and solve the murder using Sherlock Holmes’ (his favorite detective) deduction tactics. Throughout the novel, Christopher is faced with many tasks, of which, he can or cannot control, and as mentioned, with his “disease”, he has acquired a great need to organize and control every situation; this then is a great challenge for him. Thus, readers can interpret and understand the need of control and stability in a person’s life- especially in a person with Christopher’s condition- as it is highly exemplified in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. It is shown mainly in Christopher’s actions to control the environment and how this is applied to people who do not even have the condition that Christopher has. Christopher is the main character that has the need to control his environment due to his condition. Christopher controls his environment because it makes him feel safe and secure from the “dangers” of this world and because there is too much

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