Discuss The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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I loved mainly just being in Chris's mind and seeing things through his eyes. I'm not a fan of spoilers, so in this review I will say that the author's explanation and descriptiveness of how he saw and related to things was amazing!
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People need to be patient with the book and understand that we are trying to put ourselves in perspective of a child. I believe a lot of people got easily annoyed with this book because of the writing style (which I am assuming was author's intention). As long as you can get past that and envision yourself inside the character's mind you should be good.
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Christopher is driven to solve a murder, the gruesome death of a neighbor’s poodle. He decides to write a book, the one we read. The story is a journey not only through murder mystery clues, but through Christopher’s thought process and logic. This is a realistic portrayal of an autistic mind, familial struggle, an understanding of the human condition.
Mark Haddon initially authored only children’s books, and in fact The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was released with two covers, one for children/teen readers, one for adult. A marketing ploy? The books are supposedly identical and both are available on Amazon. The marvel of this book, as opposed to other books about disabled people, is that there doesn’t seem to be any evidence of autism or autistic people in Haddon’s circle, at least none were found in my limited bit of research. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is all that much more of an amazing read given the character of Christopher is Mark Haddon’s imagination and research alone – very insightful.
The prose is lyrical, the story a slice of life from the viewpoint of a naive and vulnerable child stricken with a disability of which he is completely unaware.
Jeff Woodman’s interpretation is superb.
A thought provoking story well worth your time. Enjoy!
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The story turned out to be very interesting as well. The characters were great. Christopher was a character I really related to. I remember really enjoying this book and recommending it to all my friends. I would still recommend it to them, to anyone actually.
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I particularly enjoyed the chosen plot for this book. Basing the plot on a crime mystery was very clever. Solving a mystery is all about collecting important evidence and putting together the facts to find out “the truth” about a particular incident. Creating a mystery for Christopher to solve provided a perfect mechanism within which the author could encourage the reader to consider how we think about facts and what evidence we would collect in comparison to Christpher when we enter a new situation.
The plot allows the reader to analyse the details they notice and why they believe them to be important. It makes the reader think about how we interpret peoples’ behaviour and the clues we pick up in our surrounding world.
It is easy to assume that every individual, if placed in a similar situation, would agree upon what is the truth and what is not. Christopher’s story makes you realise it is not that simple. This novel makes you think about the truth in a different way. By fully exploring the possible upsetting and negative consequences of doing so, the book also makes you think carefully about when (if ever!!) it is appropriate to try and protect people from the truth by telling a “white lie”.
I have often thought about this book over the years. It has been adapted into a script for the stage and I have regularly seen theatre billboards advertising the play. I would love to have the opportunity to go and see it one day and see how they bring the story to life in the theatre. If anyone has seen the stage play I would love to hear what you thought of it.
Also, I recently watched a BBC TV series called “The A Word” and the Netflix series called “Atypical”. Both of these series centre around young male characters who are on the Autistic Spectrum. These stories explore all the ups and downs of life for these boys and their families. These series reminded me of Christopher, his family and the mystery he set out to solve in Haddon’s novel. Watching these modern series and reading recent reviews written about them made me realise how groundbreaking Haddon’s book was for its time.
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