The Curios Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime
Communication is a life skill that is central to most everyday conversations and interactions and through the reinforcement of this skill, individuals can find themselves growing more as a person and leaving their comfort zones more often. In the play “The Curios Incident of the Dog in The Nighttime” there are several moments where the protagonist, Christopher, finds himself struggling to deal with his autism and pushing himself in new ways he didn’t know possible of achieving. The protagonist constantly has trouble conveying his true thoughts and feelings to others especially when they don’t know he has a disability. This point is shown throughout the play with several dramatic techniques to further convey a message of communication. Through
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This is the first time in years that the protagonist hears from his mother and he has no other way of responding than curling up in a ball and crying out. This is different from the first still because rather than showing people neglecting Christopher and not talking to him it shows how those closest to him have been cutting off the contact he has with his family for his own sake. Since Christopher has autism then his father, who loves him above everything else, doesn’t think it possible for Christopher to understand why his mother has left so he tells Christopher that she had a heart attack and die. Several other events eventually lead to Christopher making this discovery and choosing to go out and find his mother. This still really helps push the point of a lack of communication leading to misunderstandings in both relationships and how people view themselves and others, the latter being the lengths people will go to to protect those that they love from the sometimes harsh truth. The misunderstandings that can come from a lack of communication can go from something as simple as not knowing the grades your son/daughter got in their latest test to something as cruel as not trusting someone with telling them one of their loved ones has passed. The message of miscommunication in this play is strongly conveyed in this particular
This is the first time in years that the protagonist hears from his mother and he has no other way of responding than curling up in a ball and crying out. This is different from the first still because rather than showing people neglecting Christopher and not talking to him it shows how those closest to him have been cutting off the contact he has with his family for his own sake. Since Christopher has autism then his father, who loves him above everything else, doesn’t think it possible for Christopher to understand why his mother has left so he tells Christopher that she had a heart attack and die. Several other events eventually lead to Christopher making this discovery and choosing to go out and find his mother. This still really helps push the point of a lack of communication leading to misunderstandings in both relationships and how people view themselves and others, the latter being the lengths people will go to to protect those that they love from the sometimes harsh truth. The misunderstandings that can come from a lack of communication can go from something as simple as not knowing the grades your son/daughter got in their latest test to something as cruel as not trusting someone with telling them one of their loved ones has passed. The message of miscommunication in this play is strongly conveyed in this particular