The Dog In The Night-Time Analysis

Logic and emotion are considered an essential source of knowledge that humans utilize to process physical and emotional observations for decision-making. On a spectrum, where logic and emotion exist, neither can overpower the other being because both skill sets are required to obtain information. In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the author Mark Haddon uses the protagonist, Christopher John Francis Boone, to portray a character that understands the world through a logical perspective rather than an emotional aspect as many novelists try to do. Despite that, Christopher still thrives on emotional tendencies, which allows him to push beyond his comfort zone ‒ even when emotions can overpower his ability to process certain information events. Haddon allows the readers to envision Christopher’s way of thinking through his interactions with the world. In turn, these interactions indirectly state that logic and emotion are intertwined and cannot exist alone because emotions help us recognize certain patterns while logic helps us connect them to process (word choice) decisions critically.
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In contrast, Christopher thrives on logical habits rather than emotional. These habits tend to create a “definition meaning” of idioms, making it difficult for him to process certain phrases that are accepted through continuous knowledge from past experiences. For instance, the statement, “ He was the apple of her eye,” (15) is not an idiom that would make sense if a reader were only to define it through its definition. Nonetheless, an average person would still have a clear understanding of the meaning but Christopher would not because he would most likely try to find the reasoning behind it; like, how an apple and liking someone could relate? Consequently, this makes it difficult for Christopher to process details if he only relied on