The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime Diction

In the novel The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time by Mark Haddon, the main character named Christopher faces challenges of autism and family divorce. These situations can stress a kid as they grow up, but getting through a family divorce is harder to comprehend if the child is challenged with autism. Christopher eventually finds out that the reason his parents divorced is connected to the murder of a dead dog. The author Mark Haddon uses diction, character, syntax, and imagery to help convey that when faced with challenging situations we can still get through them even if we think we can’t. Even though most of us don’t have to face the challenges that Christopher does, we can all take a few pointers from him. He shows us how even

While diction is a style of word choice Mark Haddon uses monosyllabic for the way Christopher writes to us, monosyllabic means that Christopher’s words are one syllable in length. For example, Christopher is telling us that he prefers the chapters in this story to go with the prime numbers instead of going in order, “The rule for working out prime numbers is really simple, but no one has ever worked out a simple formula for telling you whether a very big number is a prime number or what the next one will be” (Haddon 11). This gives us an idea of how he sets his logic for one of the first times in the book. This also can tie into his character but more on that later. But please do take note that more types of diction appear in this novel like, formal, denotative, concrete, and euphonious types of diction. I would explain everything with their own quote but as we both know, I don't have enough

He is our protagonist and as we come to learn he isn't the nicest one out there, but this is mainly for his autism coming into play during most of his adventures. Near the end of the book christopher is forced to learn how to get over his fears to be able to go to his mothers but in his own unique way, “And it was like counting and saying, ‘Left, right, left, right, left, right. . .’ which Siobhan taught me to do to make myself calm. And I was saying in my head, ‘Train coming. Train stopped. Train going. Silence. Train coming. Train stopped. Train going. . .’ as if the trains were only in my mind. And normally I don't imagine things that aren't happening because it is a lie and it makes me feel scared, but it was better than watching the trains coming in and out of the station because that made me feel even more scared” (Haddon 179-180). This is connected to he base of my thematic statement by showing us how we can get through our fears if we just put our mind to it. Christopher also used logic later in another paragraph to think of a different salution to this whole situation that he put himself through leaving his dads house. The prime numbers that he talked about by liking them with his book he used some order to determine how the numbers went on as the book ended up getting longer and