The Role Of Death In The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time
Death is a universal and prevalent, yet incomprehensible phenomenon across the world that plays a significant role in the beginning and throughout The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The autistic, stolid, logical Christopher is surrounded by death throughout the entirety of the book and acts unaffected and unknowing because of his incapacity to comprehend death or sympathize with others. Christopher’s logical mind presumably makes him lead to the conclusion that the afterlife is impossible. Christopher not understanding the afterlife symbolizes the world’s view of how people regard death as a mystery. From the beginning of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the neighbor’s dog, Wellington marks the start of the