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

In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, by Mark Haddon, Christopher shows he has high self-esteem because he feels he is better than other people. He says how Sherlock Holmes is great by knowing “‘ The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes’ But he notices them, like I do”(73). Since Christopher is saying how Sherlock and he can observe unlike everyone else, he is saying how he thinks he is better than them. Next Christopher also compares himself to Sherlock in ways that do not truly make him better than others, except in his own head. He mentions how Sherlock Holmes “‘ha[s]… the power of detaching his mind at will’ And this is like [ Christopher], too”(73). Being able to detach his mind is a