The curious incident of a dog in the nighttime- unusual narrator

Everyone has probably wondered once in their lifetime about how life would have been with a disorder. Through this novel in the head of an autistic boy lives a child trying to express his emotions. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon. Mark, the author of this astonishing novel describes how different life is like in an autistic child's mind. This novel is written in a way that normal novels are not. There are diagrams, footnotes and metaphors these elements show the reader how Christopher struggles with autism. Firstly, every author has its specific style of approach to the audience, the way Mark has added diagrams in this novel to make it look like this is the way autistic kids write or describe it is very unusual. While explaining the journey of Christopher's life, diagrams are something he uses daily. “First of all I made a plan of our street...like this”(35).In this diagram it shows a bird’s eye view of Christopher's street. It states that Christopher uses diagrams to help him out on whatever he is doing. So in this case Christopher is going to go out and investigate. So to help himself out, he drew a map of his street. Autism can be serious for some people but they have their ways in helping themselves succeed. Such as Christopher uses diagrams. Novels usually explain their plans in a written description whereas in this novel or maybe in an autistic mind it shows illustrations which makes it unusual. Also, “a picture says a thousand words” the author uses these diagrams/pictures which clearly shows a message of the situation. “And then I realized that there was nothing... and I made a picture of it in my head like this”(130). In this diagram it shows a mind map of what choices Christopher has to decide which place would be the safest for him. Most books have words and words and it gets boring, tiring and monotonous. The way Mark Haddon uses diagrams is interesting and no other novel uses this idea. It clearly explains the