The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Essay
Haddon the author of “The curious incident of the dog in the night-time” uses language forms and techniques to immerse the readers into the worlds of the central characters. Haddon draws the readers into the world of Christopher and father Ed through his uses of the language forms and techniques of imagery, unreliable narrator and emotive language to show the audience the perspectives of the characters.
The reader’s initial perspective of Christopher is that he is logical but odd. Christopher cannot comprehend emotions although he is very smart because of his photographic intelligence. His teacher, Siobhan, would draw pictures of faces expressing emotions and Christopher was unable to understand all of the pictures; “Then she drew some pictures but I was unable to say what these meant”. Haddon includes visual images of Siobhan’s drawings which draws the reader into Christopher’s world.
Christopher’s father Ed in the beginning is portrayed as a kind, patient and understanding of Christopher. Father loves Christopher very much; this is shown when father visits Christopher in jail. Father and Christopher spread their hands out like a fan and touch each other. “We made our fingers and thumbs touch each other … and it meant that he loved me”. Haddon implements emotive language the language feature in order to engage the readers into the mind of father.
Christopher’s relationship with the truth is negotiated based on logic rather than emotional intelligence. Haddon employs the language technique of unreliable narrator, when the investigation leads Christopher to say a white lie. Christopher and Father where in the kitchen eating supper on the table and father asked Christopher where he was earlier, Christopher replied that he has been out. “I said a white lie because I knew that father didn’t want me to be a detective”. This changes the reader’s perspective of Christopher because he said that he doesn’t lie but he did.
The reader’s perception of father has
Haddon the author of “The curious incident of the dog in the night-time” uses language forms and techniques to immerse the readers into the worlds of the central characters. Haddon draws the readers into the world of Christopher and father Ed through his uses of the language forms and techniques of imagery, unreliable narrator and emotive language to show the audience the perspectives of the characters.
The reader’s initial perspective of Christopher is that he is logical but odd. Christopher cannot comprehend emotions although he is very smart because of his photographic intelligence. His teacher, Siobhan, would draw pictures of faces expressing emotions and Christopher was unable to understand all of the pictures; “Then she drew some pictures but I was unable to say what these meant”. Haddon includes visual images of Siobhan’s drawings which draws the reader into Christopher’s world.
Christopher’s father Ed in the beginning is portrayed as a kind, patient and understanding of Christopher. Father loves Christopher very much; this is shown when father visits Christopher in jail. Father and Christopher spread their hands out like a fan and touch each other. “We made our fingers and thumbs touch each other … and it meant that he loved me”. Haddon implements emotive language the language feature in order to engage the readers into the mind of father.
Christopher’s relationship with the truth is negotiated based on logic rather than emotional intelligence. Haddon employs the language technique of unreliable narrator, when the investigation leads Christopher to say a white lie. Christopher and Father where in the kitchen eating supper on the table and father asked Christopher where he was earlier, Christopher replied that he has been out. “I said a white lie because I knew that father didn’t want me to be a detective”. This changes the reader’s perspective of Christopher because he said that he doesn’t lie but he did.
The reader’s perception of father has