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    Mark Haddon, in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, uses language features such as narrative point of view, juxtaposition, characterisation and other stylistic devices to explore different perspectives in the text. These include Christopher’s point of view, a cultural point of view and the perspective of his mother. These language features and stylistic devices used in the text, provide a thoughtful influence on the audience. In the novel, Christopher Boone is a 15-year-old mathematically

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    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon is a lighthearted yet suspenseful piece that will intrigue and inspire the reader until the very end. It all starts with Christopher Boone, the main protagonist in the story who is extremely intelligent and lives with asperger's syndrome. He lives with his father who raises him alone because his mother ‘died’ a few years back. In the novel, he discovers his neighbor's dog Wellington had been killed one evening in cold-blood. This

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    The Curious Incident Of the Dog in the Nighttime is a ecstatic novel about a huge boy named Christopher who has autism. Christopher is tremendously talented at math and more logic-based skilled, such as writing an extremely detailed daily schedule, or drawing intricate maps of places he once visited. He plays a huge role in novel as he tries to solve the mystery of a murder of a dog that he cared most about. Even though he is struggling to fit in with society due to his Asperger syndrome, he still

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    The novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time gives the reader an inside look on what life is like for a person with autism through their eyes. In the video clip Marianne Elliott, the director of the play, says, “Mark Haddon deliberately didn’t explain or describe who Christopher was.” Mark Haddon, the author, did not tell us that Christopher had Asperger’s because he wanted to focus on difference not on disability. By Haddon telling this story from the point of view of Christopher

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    novel? What = Examples from text (quotes/technique) Prime Number, Logical chapter, Story Chapter Grabs Attention, Engages, Keeps you reading Humour, Language, Makes you think (purpose, inform, entertain, persuade) Introduction/Thesis The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a unique murder, mystery novel written by Mark Haddon, in a first person written narration which explores the perspective of an autistic teenager Christopher Boone. One way this novel is unique is through The

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    “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” is a 2003 mystery novel written by a British writer by the name of Mark Haddon. With this novel Haddon was able to win three awards; one of which was the Whitbread Book Award for Best Novel and Book of the Year. Haddon writes the book in a first-person perspective, through the eyes of the protagonist Christopher John Francis Boone, a 15-year-old boy with behavioural difficulties. Throughout the novel Haddon uses numerous techniques to present this

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    The novel “The curious incident of the dog in the time” was written in the point of view of a boy named Christopher with special needs. Christopher was trying to discover the murderer of his neighbor’s dog. This novel may have been written for many reasons such as to show what life is like in the eyes of someone with a disability and how different the world may seem. Throughout the entire novel we saw things the way Christopher would have and the story was so well written it made you almost feel

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    Throughout the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- Time, author Mark Haddon displays numerous different perspectives. These perspectives are explored through the use of different language and stylistic devices, such as, first person, flashback, tone and through the unreliable narration from Christopher Boone. These features are all used to help the audience gain a deeper understanding of how The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- Time explores different perspectives.

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    book should begin with something to grab people’s attention. That is why I started with the dog. I also started with the dog because it happened to me and i find it hard to imagine things which did not happen to me” (5), says Christopher. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, by Mark Haddon is a novel about Christopher John Francis Boone, an autistic boy who decides to solve the case of a murdered dog as a detective. Christopher, throughout the novel, expresses a growing desire for independence

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    1990 Prompt In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Christopher’s autism prevents him from interacting normally with other people. Christopher’s father does the best he can to raise Christopher by himself, but he struggles with alcoholism and fails to understand the full extent of Christopher’s illness. Christopher’s dad tells Christopher that his mom died from a heart attack, but Christopher later finds out that she had an affair and ran away with Mr. Shears. Christopher runs away

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