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

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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). Christopher's emotions may not be explicitly expressed, but they form an emotional appeal that resonates with readers, eliciting empathy for his