The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime Imagery

The thesis: In The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-time, Christopher makes use of various types of images to express and show how Christopher’s character sees things and the theme of figurative imagery. In particular Literal imagery, imagery visual and organic visual

Christopher makes use of Literal Imagery to express His emotions about certain things. Christopher said: ‘’ On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard’’ ( 103 ). It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty. Even though Christopher struggles to understand people's emotions by their facial expressions and when expressing his emotions, he is usually straightforward. It shows that even though he

Rain reminds him of silence but not emptiness which he likes because when it rains, it feels like the rain is speaking to you with the silence noise they make speaks, it feels like it talking in silence but not an empty silence. This connects to why he likes rain because Christopher doesn't like interacting with people the noise and sound they make aren't as peaceful as silence as rain it is, their silence is more aggressive and large. It shows that he is able to do a lateral thing, which he often does when expressing his emotions but when he uses lateral and connects it with other things it shows how he feels in a deeper connection which provides the author with the opportunity to express his emotion more emotionally which can help the reader understand how Christopher lifestyle work when it comes to emotions and despite he expresses his emotions straight forward and cold there is another way he emotional expressing himself., also connect how different Christopher and people with autism use thing or words to express their selves. While watching the sky as we drove toward the town center. Christopher

And then there will be nothing to stop us from seeing all the stars in the world because they will all be moving towards us, gradually faster and faster, and we will know that the world is going to end soon because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.”( 19).In his explanation of how he sees the milky way, he uses similar isolation imagery. He goes on to explain how no one will see this because there will be no people left on the earth to see it. They will probably have become extinct by then. And even if there are people still in existence they will not see it because the light will be so bright and hot that everyone will be burnt to death, even if they live in tunnels (19). So while struggles to understand facial expressions he is able to use words to create a visual image for the reader to be able to see what his imagining with his words. This shows a purpose in how he has a hard time understanding facial expressions beacuse he can