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The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time By Mark Haddon

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✰✰✰✰✰The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon. Realistic Fiction; 2003; 221 pages. This book is a national bestseller, focusing on a 15-year-old boy named Christopher Boone. Christopher sees the world divergently from the rest of his community. His mind works like a machine, almost perfectly when it comes to planning, memories, mathematics, and sciences. With this considered, there are other things he doesn’t understand—things that seem to come secondary to people other than himself, such as his mother and father. These phenomenons encompass when people say things they don’t mean or how random words simply put together can construct an entirely different meaning than what the phrase is saying. As these factors are combined, they leave the holder, Christopher, to be autistic. Even with his sophisticated and intelligent thinking, he will always seem different. …show more content…

Using his unique mind, he immediately begins to form plans to solve the mystery that is: Who Killed Wellington? As Christopher sets out on this mystery, many things, internal and external, hold him back. He encounters people who are unable to help and understand him. These subjects include misinformed police, his classmates, his neighbors, strangers, and even his family. Working alongside the people in his life are other elements that he can’t understand or avoid. These include colors, cars, buses, and food. So, he uses his thinking to avoid these elements; but this only leads to him finding more paths than he had initially expected, making the mysterious case he set out on much more personal and

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In "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon, various forms of rhetoric are expertly woven into the narrative. The first-person narrative of fifteen-year-old Christopher Boone immerses us in his logical yet emotionally poignant thought process. As Christopher sets out to solve the mystery of Wellington's murder, he relies on his logical appeals, displaying his exceptional mathematical mind and pattern recognition skills. For instance, he says, "And I do maths in my head to calm me down… [p]rime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away" (Haddon 2).

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was written by Mark Haddon. Haddon's fiction novel was based on a fifteen year old boy named Christopher Boone. Christopher never thought bad things would happen in his little home town of Swindon, England until now. Boone was on the hunt to find the person responsible for Mrs. Shears dog, Wellington's death. As Christopher starts to unravel some secrets, his father tells him to stop the search.

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