The Curious Incident By Christopher Boone

No emotion has such universal meaning as love. It is an integral part of the human condition. Love is the basis for by which all other emotions can be gauged. Friendship and even grief are steeped in love. Love is so central to our lives that it is fitting and proper that it should be the topic of so much discussion. Every culture and every writer has some commentary or evaluation of love. The New Testament has its share of love commentary. The entire basis of the Christian tradition is God's love for humanity. "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son." (John 3:6) Jesus preached a great deal about love of neighbor, love of God and even love of enemies. (Matt 5:44) Shakespeare's Biblical knowledge is well known and he

Contrary to a computer, Christopher can feel emotions. He may not understand why he feels a certain way, but he knows what it feels like to be happy or sad. He recognizes that he felt sad when he found the dead dog (pg2), and he knows that he feels happy when he reads about the Apollo missions. The most important time in the novel that Christopher shows common human emotions is on page 112 when he first finds out that his mother is alive. He is very hurt and betrayed, but he does not know what he is feeling and cannot find a way to handle himself. Although Christopher concedes to having these emotions, he seems to just accept that he has them rather than to understand them.

This isn’t a very big setting for Christopher but it is very important because it leads to the way Chris acts in public, not being able to talk to anyone or just anyone like a policeman. Throughout the book he loses trust and love for his father to the point where he doesn’t want to be with him, here’s why "Then I stopped reading the letter because I felt sick. Mother had not had a heart attack. Mother had not died. Mother had been alive all the time.

Although different emotions sprout different response, Smith argues that people’s cannot go beyond their own selves and therefore use personal conceptions to judge others’ sentiments of joy or grief. Smith states that although we can sympathy with others’ emotion, we cannot truly go beyond our own personal experience and preconception because “it is by the imagination only that we can for any conception of what he suffers” (1). Therefore, although one may sympathy with others’ feelings, people are always limited to their “own person.” Smith explores “there are some passions of which the expressions excite no sort of sympathy” (2) because it may depend on people personal perception or preconceptions. For instance, Smith argues that “the furious

One’s own emotions can change the way one feels about people. For instance, Roxane’s infatuation with Christian altered her judgment, so she couldn’t connect obvious facts. One night, Cyrano speaks for Christian beneath Roxane’s balcony. Even when Cyrano, caught in the moment, accidentally reveals his true identity,

In chapter seven, it talks about emotions which are internal sensations that are shaped by physiology, perceptions, language, and social experiences. It is said that we feel emotions when external stimuli cause a physiological change in our bodies. For example, before and while giving my identity presentation, I felt anxious and nervous. I knew this because I was sweating, light-headed, and my stomach was turning. Another example for me would be whenever I get extremely mad because it feels like my whole body is on fire.

Christopher felt guilty of all the negative, preconceived thoughts he had before going to Leonie and Andrew’s wedding on Friday. The night before, while getting his outfit ready for the wedding he dreaded meeting a few people at the wedding tomorrow. For some unknown, (apart from devious idle gossip by those who relish hate instead of love, war instead of peace and grief instead of joy. And to his surprise he allowed these negative emotions seep through his heart like poison ivy. Worse still, on meeting them he wanted to slap them in their faces without a given reason other than; they deceived, betrayed, misunderstood and forsaken him in ways that are blurry, patchy, but hurts every time he thinks about what was said. Yet within reason his

This written language is exceptionally comprehensible, as sentences run on, with the use of adding ‘and,’ ‘because,’ ‘then.’ Love isn’t expressed immediately during the story as Christopher’s conditions create difficulty in understanding love, resulting in his inability to express emotions. This makes him feel alienated and disconnected. Hadden uses repetitive and simple language and sentence structure to convey Christopher’s misunderstanding of feelings. He makes a list, in which he records the different behaviours people would associate with love, so he can recognize it when he sees it.

Emotions are used in everyday life, whether it be just a simple smile that makes happiness disperse in your brain, or a death of a loved one that causes sadness. The basic emotions are joy, interest, surprise, sadness, anger, disgust, contempt, fear, shame, and guilt. The way we see emotion in ourselves and others can be very complex because we sometimes assume they feel a certain way just based on their actions or even facial expressions. When emotion is discussed in psychological terms, it is not based on one thing, instead it’s a mix of bodily arousal, expressive behaviors, conscious experience. Many theories try to explain how emotion works.

From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" we were introduced to the main protagonist, a young autistic fifteen-year-old boy named Christopher looking at life analytically with logical conclusions. Once he found the next-door neighbour's dog lying dead on the ground, Christopher decided it was up to himself to solve the puzzle and to bring justice.

(pg.60-61). For most of the novel Christopher is a detached character in situations where other would show emotions like when his father told him his mother was dead, his reaction was unemotional, he asked logical questions and came up with his own theory for why his mother died (pg. 27). When he finds out that his mother wasn’t dead he became more intact with is emotions “I stopped reading because I felt sick.” when he found the letters from his mother he became emotional but it was too much for him all at once so his body and mind stopped working like how his mind really worked (pg. 112-115). His interaction with people from before he left his house (pg. 126-127) changed when he left because he was force to talk to strangers because he didn’t know how the world worked (pg. 137-138, 148-154, 158-161).

Additionally, the interactions from other characters show complications Christopher has relating with others as evident “Then she [Mrs. Alexander] turned and went into the house…I didn’t know her well enough to know whether she was telling the truth…So I walked away.” (pg. 41) As the protagonist is unaware of Mrs. Alexander’s intent of goodwill, Christopher is unable to presume this, thus left. Multiple incidences of the character displaying his incredulity arise within the book, for instance the prompt disbelief of god, a figure head for many symbolizing hope; the complications Christopher has with metaphors, confusion occurs as they have multiple implications; and the belief of caring for those that are gone, as Christopher had no intent

Another way he shows emotion is by holding up his hand and connecting it with a hand of his parents. While they never interlock fingers, it is still a form of intimacy. He does this to let his father and mother know that he loves and cares for them deeply. Because Christopher does not communicate by the normal definition, one might think he is incapable of something so raw and genuine. Mark Haddon proves this accusation to be

Love is a major theme that is shown throughout the whole story. Christopher is on the autism spectrum and it is very hard for him to understand many things and do many things. One of these difficulties is showing his emotions such as love. We can see that when Christophers dad hugs him he doesn't like it but still accepts the hug. Christopher shows us that love can be shown in many

Having never experienced a positive way to express his feeling in his childhood it caused him to be so cold and empty in side. He was as inhuman and void of emotions as his small childhood pet.