The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time By Mark Haden

‘It is an individual’s personal experiences that shapes their perspective and values’. This can be proven by analysing the book; ‘The curious incident of the dog in the night time’ by Mark Haden. Which I will now be referring to as ‘The Curious Dog’.Good morning class, today I will be talking about how this book shows how a person’s experiences shape their perspectives and values; We can see this in the text because of how Christopher’s experiences with people cause him to develop new perspectives with help to develop empathy for others, and how his experiences with stressful situations caused him to develop coping mechanisms.

‘The Curious Dog’’ uses Christopher’s experiences with people which caused him to develop new perspectives and help

The author makes use of characterisation to not only tell us about how Christopher is someone who likes to be left alone while sad, but this also shows us how his experiences with being sad and wanting to be left alone cause him to have empathy for his dad. Throughout the book he also encounters experiences which help him to gain empathy, like when he said "I also felt sad because I realised that animals and people who are frightened and hurt can sometimes do bad things when they are trying to protect themselves.". The author utilises a motif to continue the theme of Christopher encountering characters who are frightened, or in pain and Christopher can’t understand them. This quote shows however that Christopher’s experience with how the dog reacted to being hurt caused him to understand that people can sometimes do bad things when they are

This can be shown through when Christopher said "I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.”. The metaphor used is meant to truly show us why Christopher likes it when it rains. This also shows us that Christopher’s experiences with being on the autistic spectrum and having to deal with a lot of unwanted sounds caused him to find comfort in white noise. We are made aware of another coping mechanism Christopher uses when he said "I know all the countries of the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7,057, but I don't know how to be normal. It's like I have to keep on remembering to breathe; it's like I have to keep on remembering to live.". The simile here is used to show how being trying to be normal is like having to remember to breathe or remember how to live. This shows to us that Christopher’s experiences with not fitting in caused him to rely on facts, and remembering these things to give him some