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The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time

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Title: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Author: Mark Haddon Pages: 226 Number of Pages read: 91 In Mark Haddon’s book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, he realistically portrays the perspective of an intelligent, autistic teenager through the addition of seemingly random facts and the writing style. Throughout the novel, Haddon has Christopher, the autistic boy, stray away from the topic and talk about topics concerning math, science, history, and psychology. These frequent small digressions give a raw representation of a highly functioning autistic boy, because it exhibits Christopher’s extraordinary knowledge, but also shows that he is uncomfortable in social situations. He would rather think logically
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