The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Time, defies the reader’s perception of the larger world but more notably the approach we perceive and comprehend ourselves. ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time' is a novel that explores the unique world of an individual who exists in a minority. This allows the audience to divert from the stereotypical perceptions, regarding the complex relationship between disability and dependence, hence offering and insight of the complexities associated in human nature. Haddon allows the reader to examine a deep insight of a unique individual - both debilitating and empowering – disability where his approach to life and its events are studied closely where a more deepened understanding is reached. Seen evident through the themes of autism, language and communication and through the written words where narrative techniques such as metaphors, dialogue and the use of first person are used to achieve the ideas of these themes.
Written words, allows the audience to have a deep understanding of Christopher’s unique world. Its apparent textual features enable readers to take in its contents and only make sense of what is directly written. Throughout “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” the book is seen through the eyes of Christopher, a fifteen-year-old genius narrator with Asperger’s syndrome and what the audience apprehends are the events surrounding him are processed in his intelligent mind in a different manner. For example, Christopher’s world revolves around order and logic, hence when it comes to jokes he does not understand because jokes are illogical. Through the dialogue, images, letters from his mother descriptions, the audience do not see his perceptive but more rather being placed into Christopher’s shoes. As the book continues, the readers become more and more tuned into the way Christopher views the world. The readers are let into his world in a way that other characters in the novel seem unable to...