Analysis Of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime By Mark Haddon

The novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon comprises of, a mentally unbalanced juvenile named Christopher who is determined to find the person who murdered his neighbor's dog. The investigation drives him down some startling paths and eventually brings him eye to eye with the dissolution of his mother and father's marriage. As he tries to cope with the craziness of his family, we are drawn into the workings of Christopher's mind. Furthermore, thus leads the way to the brilliance of Mark Haddon's decision of storytelling: The most emotional moments are brought to us by a kid who can't understand feelings. The impact is stunning, making for a novel that is profoundly entertaining, strong, and interesting in its

Someone who helped him with issues and often tried to correct his out of control actions. His teacher also known as Siobhan assisted him with getting through things without the guide of any medicines that could be impeding to his wellbeing over the long haul. With Farghers article about medication, Mairain Corker and Tom Shakespeare argue that " Medication is a way of coping with pain and ideally we just need a sense of strength and both the medical model and the social model seek to explain disability universally and end up creating totalizing meta-historical narratives that exclude important dimensions of disabled people's lives and of their knowledge"(15). Haddon makes it well known that Siobhan is the character in his novel that knows how to break through and fully understand Christopher. In a section of the book, Christopher says "when people tell you what to do it is usually confusing and does not make sense"(139). Siobhan understands exactly what Christopher is saying. Siobhan is made out to be a positive role model to set an example for Christopher's father and to show readers how Christopher and people like him should be treated. Siobhan set aside the opportunity to make sense of how Christopher thinks/figures things out, and she adjusted to his lifestyle in order to understand him better. In an article about disability in society, Preston states that "disability is a single concept

His mother seemingly sees Christopher's disability as something that she can change. It's almost as if she does not want to believe that something is truly wrong with her child. Judy (Christopher's mom) expresses in her letters her desire for Christopher to be an ordinary child. She often expressed to Christopher that she was not a great mother to him and that things would have probably been extremely different had he just acted accordingly. Judy is an illustration that was brought about to show the audience exactly what Christopher has to go through on a day to day basis. Haddon deliberately utilizes the mother as somebody the readers can drop their jaws to because of how rude she seems; like she just does not care about her son because of what he has to go through while also allowing readers to gain knowledge of what it resembles on the less than desirable end through Christopher. In an article about misfit mothers and disabilities Robertson states that "The person who appears to be independent is a person who lives within and depends on interpersonal and social structural relationships that are empowering him or her" (689). Judy seemingly wants Christopher in her life because she knows that that is her child, however; she tries so hard to make him an average person that she really creates a detrimental