THE CURIOS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME – AN INSIGHT INTO THE WORLD OF AUTISTIC PERSON

THE CURIOS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME – AN INSIGHT INTO THE WORLD OF AUTISTIC PERSON

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a novel by Mark Haddon , an Oxford University professor . Mark Haddon uses Christopher , a protagonist of the novel , in to give the readers a better understanding of the world of autistic people and the way they deal with the surrounding . The novel describes a story of an autistic boy Christopher Boone , who performs investigation trying to find the murder of his neighbor ‘s dog . The [banner_entry_middle]

investigation becomes a difficult test for Christopher because his autism makes his communication with the external world very problematic . During the investigation he uncovers the truth about the relations of his family and finds out that his mother is alive

The protagonist is a teenager who is alike with many teen of his age but at the same time he is different . Christopher spends hours leaning solar system . He is also found of math . His unique memory and special skills make him different from other boys and girls . Dr . Haddon used to work with autistic children before he started his career as a professor so he knows what he is writing about . The story is written in a form of first person narration and we can see the story from Christopher ‘s point of view . Such a narration mode is a very good author ‘s find as it gives the readers a better insight into the life and way of thinking of people with autism . Christopher is aware that he is different from other people . As he tells about his mental abilities “My memory is like a film .And when people ask me to remember something I can simply press Rewind and Fast Forward and Pause like on a video rec .If someone says to me ‘Christopher , tell me what your mother was like ‘ I can rewind to lots of different scenes and say what she was like in those scenes (Hadoon , 42 ) His illness , autism , makes him separated from the rest of the world and in the beginning of the novel Christopher feels comfortable living in this isolation

Autism is usually defined as a neurodevelopmental dis , which leads to difficulties in social and personal interaction . Usually first symptoms of this dis can be uncovered by the age of three years (Tustin . The reasons , which cause autism are not fully discovered yet Some researchers state that autism has genetic reasons and search for the answer in the structure of chromosomes . The research made among twins proves this hypothesis . More than 60 percent of monozigotic twins show same autism rate , while this percentage makes less than 4 percent for dizygotic twins (Bailey et al . Such a statistics becomes a proof of the genetic character of this dis . There are environmental theories , which say that different vaccines could have caused those changes in immune system , which finally led to autism . More recent environmental theory blames television , which has negative… [banner_entry_footer]