Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime By Mark Haddon

The Book, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, was written by Mark Haddon in 2003, which was later rewritten for a stage adaption by Simon Stephens in 2015. The Story follows a young boy, Christopher in his efforts to solve the murder of his neighbor’s dog, who struggles to deal with the people around him and his inability to process social constructs and human emotion. The author of the book Haddon, doesn’t establish the autism Christopher has in order to allow the audience to not immediately label him, instead Christopher is described as having an “extraordinary brain”.
The Play Provides an insight in to the mind of someone with Autism or other mental illnesses. It’s hard to imagine what people are going through when you don’t know what’s going on or how they function. The process of figuring out what makes people who they are and why the react the way they do is a very intimate thing, and is extremely rewarding giving an insight into who they really are and heart of their internal struggles. In order to truly to understand Christopher, his thoughts and inner struggles need to be visible to decipher. Experiencing Curious Incident gives an accurate insight to how an individual with Autism thinks and processes. An example of this is, “2; 4; 8; 16; 32; 64;
They don’t allow any room for their own imagination. The article by Singh explains the authors thought on the subject, “It is used as a textbook for social workers, and for policemen, which is something I heard recently. I never meant it to be a textbook. I’m a little worried if people are saying, ‘If you want to work out how to treat people on the spectrum, read this novel’” (Singh). This show although it gives a great insight, it wasn’t designed to be the answer key to everyone. Research should still be done to know and understand truly, because not everyone is the