The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a 2003 mystery novel by a british writer Mark Haddon. This was his first book and in the same year as it was first published‚ he won the Whitbread Book Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year. In 2004 he got another prize for his book‚ namely the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Overall Best First Book and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. The 15 years old narrator of the story‚ Christopher John Francis Boone‚ suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome
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In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time‚ by Mark Haddon‚ Christopher shows he has high self-esteem because he feels he is better than other people. He says how Sherlock Holmes is great by knowing “‘ The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes’ But he notices them‚ like I do”(73). Since Christopher is saying how Sherlock and he can observe unlike everyone else‚ he is saying how he thinks he is better than them. Next Christopher also compares himself to
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In the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon‚ I interpret the main character Christopher as contradictory. He is shown to be a really smart kid‚ but he’s also pretty clueless in other subjects. He’s a really nice kid‚ but he can be really rude and insensitive. Lastly‚ he can come off as being really mature – and he does act like it – but he is actually really immature at times. Christopher is a brilliant kid. He knows his prime numbers‚ explains how Marilyn vos Savant
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The decision Mr.Boone made to lie to Christopher about Christopher’s mother in the novel the curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon‚ was an ethical decision. The decision created a safer environment for Christopher‚ alone with Mr.Boone and Christopher’s mother. Christopher’s mom could not handle Christopher very well. Christopher had many problems‚ and Christopher’s mom did not have the patience to deal with Christopher. She got very angry when try to handle Christopher‚ "
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Creative Writing Assignment- Letter of Complaint Dear Swindon Police Station‚ I’m writing to you because I am not happy with the way you treated my 15 year old son last week‚ when he was taken into custody. I want to complain about the way you took him to the police station under false accusations and without contacting me‚ his father. It is against the law to take underaged children to the police station without contacting their parents or guardian. My son suffers from Aspergers syndrome and
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In the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Hadden the main character‚ Christopher Boone‚ exhibits the personality trait of anxiety. In the story the anxious Christopher Boone finds a dog dead in his neighbor’s lawn. He wants to find out who the murderer is and during his investigation he finds out that his mother has not been dead for two years and that his own father killed the dog. There are many things that make him anxious such as changes in his environment‚ things
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Then Curious Incident Of the Dog In The Night- Time by Mark Haddon‚ adapted by Simon Stephens‚ takes us to Londan in the twentith century. The main character is boy named Christopher Boone‚ who is autist. He is very blunt and always honest and akward. You Christopher awkardness and honesty in the scene when he is arrested‚ this police is talking to him and he just is blunt as page 6 says “ And what precisely are you doing in the garden? I am talking to you… why were you holding the dog ? I like
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In Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time‚ Christopher’s quest to find Wellington the dog’s killer leads to more discoveries than he anticipated. He has to learn how to be more independent and faces lies and betrayal. Christopher’s choice to solve Wellington’s murder leads to his evolution as he must mature and evolve when someone he trusted lies to him and he decides he must leave his home. Christopher changes when he decides to solve Wellington’s murder since he must
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Boone lives his life. Christopher is a 15 year old teen who is competent of naming all the world’s countries and their capitals. He can list every prime number up to 7‚057. Although it is not clearly stated in the book‚"The Curious Incident Of the Dog In The Night-Time"‚
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In the novel the curious incident of the dog in the night time Mark Hadden demonstrates the qualities of hardships and problems which every key character in the novel has to deal with. Some are stronger or harder than others but in the end they still have to jump that hurdle they are trying to get over. Every character does find a way to manage their problems and deal with them sensibly. But I respect Mr Boone the most because he deals with two lots of troubles‚ his own and his son Christopher’s
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