The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Analysis

Society has indicated that it is not concerned about people with disabilities. Mark Haddon’s novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, follows the theme of “sometimes people are born with disabilities but it’s communities that handicap them”. In the novel, the protagonist, Christopher, is put into challenging situations where people do not consider the fact that someone may be disabled. This causes misinterpretations of language and emotions that causes society to blindly handicap others without realizing the outcome.

People do not consider the fact that someone may be disabled. Christopher does not like being touched; this is why he hit the police officer when the officer grabbed his arm. The “policeman looked at me for
Christopher has Asperger’s Syndrome, which causes problems with understanding speech and interpreting emotions. Christopher says, “I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It only has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating.” Christopher likes dogs as they only have basic moods that Christopher can understand. He prefers dogs rather than humans as humans are much more complex when it comes to emotions and their speech is also not specific and to-the-point like Christopher’s therefore it is not easily understandable. Christopher does not like it when people said things like “I’m going to hit the hay” because he does not know what it means. When the lady said to Chris that she was “going to hit the hay.” Christopher was confused as she was not clear about what she was saying and it was like an alien language to him. Christopher does not like similes or metaphors, as he believes that they are lies and the lady was talking using a metaphor. As Christopher helps himself by using graphics and emoticons and he takes everything literally, he experiences difficulty in understanding what people are saying and interpreting their