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Analysis Of 'The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time'

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English Term 3 - Radio Transcript - The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time (Mark Haddon) INTERVIEWER: Greetings and welcome to The Show. I’m Interviewer and today we have acclaimed writer, Mark Haddon here with us to discuss his widely popular ‘The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time’. Written in the form of an autobiographical murder mystery, the story is narrated from the perspective of a 15-year-old boy, Christopher Boone, who has Asperger 's Syndrome, essentially a form of autism. However, as time goes on, the story develops past the standard whodunit novel into something a little bit deeper and thicker, overall, highlighting the potential difference and exemplified perspective brought forward by Asperger’s …show more content…

He is also aware of his lack of apprehension of other aspects of life and so throughout the tale, he gets heavily misinterpreted by the majority of society. Regardless though, within his parameters, his eccentricity allows him a wider range of analysis to decipher the situation rather than becoming discombobulated and feart. Also, as far as maintaining relationships, I’d say it 's an area of Christopher that needs work. His acknowledgement of his list of behavioural nodi well indicates his unintentional disregard for other people in ‘A. Not talking to people for a long time.’ coupled with the footnote ‘Once I didn 't talk to anyone for 5 weeks,’ making it fairly definite that he is unaffected by an absence of social presence. Another strong example of this is initially where “The policeman took hold of my arm. I didn 't like him touching me. And this is when I hit him.” My use of simplistic recount-like sentences helps extend his illness beyond him just being gauche. Despite facing authority, the severe reaction to touch signals his hypersensitivity, instinctually swinging at him. Often times touch can be used as an enhancement of expression, body language and emotions which can build upon and strengthen relationships, however,

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