Mark Haddon's Indirect Caracterization Of Risk Taker

Mark Haddon's Indirect Caracterization of Risk-taker & Research

Christopher Boone is a young man who loves to learn, he was introduced by Mark Haddon as an autistic teen who wanted to solve the murder of his neighbors dog, and he did that and much more. Christopher is written in a way that he goes through a lot in the novel including death, lies, stress, discovery, and much more. In The Curiose Incident of The Dog In The Night-time Mark Haddon, the author inderectly characterizes Christopher as developing the ATL skill of research as well as the IB learner trait of risk-taker. Mark Haddon characterixes fifteen year old Christopher as a risk-taker among many things. One instance of this is when he ignores his Fathers orders to mind his own

He does not usually take risks, but when he feels srtongly enough about someting he will. One example of this is when Christopher goes to find his book from his fathers romm. He writes, "But if I took the book he would know I had been messing with things in his room and he would be very angry and I had promised not to mess with things in his room"(Haddon 93-94). In this example Haddon indirectly characterizes Christopher as a risk-taker by having him take a risk eventhough he knows it's wrong. He is building up his independence and courage. In other circumstances this character acts on impulse, because of his autism he doesn't have the right boundaries. As you can see the author creates a risk-taking charcter who is also an

Anoher instance when Haddon's character exhibits this ATL skill was when Christopher goes around to all of his neighbors for hepl and information. Haddon writes, "I decided that I would go and ask some od the other people who live on our street if they had seen anyone killing Wellington or whether they had seen anything strange happening in the street on Thursday night"(Haddon 34). Here christopher is getting a range of perspectives from his neighbors. Throughout the novel Haddon's vharacter grows and evaluates information from a range of sources, and becomes more relaxed. Also, because he is making connections among the sources he is becoming more open to people touching him and his surrondings. Christopher Boone is writen as a teenager who loves to prosses data and solve things, this is what gives him the ATL research