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Diction And Imagery

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“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”, by Mark Haddon is a mystery novel about a young boy named Christopher who discovers a dead dog in his neighbors yard. Christopher and his father live together, while his mother lives in New York with her new husband. Christopher has some mental health problems, but continues to strive as he is very adventurous and curious. Throughout the novel, Hadden uses characters, diction, syntax, and imagery, to develop that you can always get better at conquering a fear if you step out of your comfort zone, by showing how Christopher conquers his and things that make him uncomfortable. He works through these fears and gets better at being less sensitive and more brave. Haddon uses imagery to develop the theme of fear, by showing and describing what Christopher does to overcome what he is afraid of. The author does a good job using imagery to do this, because you can see and picture what Christopher is thinking and feeling when having to do things that he doesn’t want to do. He also uses metaphors to different things that you would usually be scared of, to help you imagine it. …show more content…

The author also writes Christophers inner monologues in a very blunt manner to express feelings or thoughts, because he isn’t very good at showing when he cares about something. For example, when Christopher was at the train station, he said “And I thought the little station was going to collapse or there was going to be a big fire somewhere and I was going to die” (Hadden 276). Christopher is very good at using his words to fully show what he literally means, so the author writes like this. His fear is shown in a different way than others, because of the way he will say something like “I am scared” instead of just implying it. (add

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