n the book, The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night-Time, author Mark Haddon portrays the belief that seeing the world through the character whom he narrates within the first person, Christopher, helps readers discover deeply hidden truths within themselves. Such truths we seldom reveal in the shadow of the convoluted fear of judgment instilled within the human psyche. Haddon expertly does so by demonstrating the behavior of a person on the Autism Spectrum who may be incapable of receiving or demonstrating love in its traditional fashion.
Firstly, Mark Haddon helps through his portrayal of Christopher the reader better their understanding of themselves on an intrapersonal level and he does so in an extremely intelligent manner.
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In the said journey, Christopher comes across a series of untruthful and untrusting individuals including both of his somewhat deplorable parents who play a large role in the further degradation of his confidence as well as his vast and evergrowing distrust in people around him. Autism is as one could presumably guess Christopher’s main struggle in the book which influences his judgment and his reactions to society buy and large. Autism is often construed as a mental disorder that is often thought to cause difficulty in forming relationships, communicating with others, and relating to various. In Christopher’s case, he is extremely intelligent and excels in his logical numbers-based subjects, such as Math and Science. Christopher’s autism also takes a great toll on his daily life, in the story, he has immense social hardship when interacting with human beings and rather prefers animals because he seemingly understands them vastly …show more content…
As a stark result of this behavior, we see him rebelling against his father in the novel by lying and disobeying his father’s orders, even to his own detriment. We also see this desire for independence in Christopher’s dream of being both an astronaut, and one of the few people left on Earth, in which no authority figureheads are present, and in his planning for college, where he wants to live on the moon or rather in space far away from all other forms of civilization. This self-isolation has led to Christopher into a labyrinth of mistaken body language and missed social cues further granting him the ability to love something in a traditionally thought