The Curious Incident Of The Dog

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The curious incident of the dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon mystery novel The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-Time gets

narrated by Christopher in the first person. He is a mathematician who exhibits some behavioral

difficulties. The paper conducts a cognitive overview on how Christopher's condition limits his

perspective of life. It completes the study by considering various attributes like his struggle to

become independent, the subjectivity of his arguments and also the disorder of his life.

The Disorder of Life

It is true that Christopher's conditions limit his perspective on life. He has an urgent need

of seeing a world that is orderly. He has been cocooned in an unusual environment, and he has a

significantly low tolerance for disorder. He entirely describes some of the challenges he faced at

the time he was on vacation with his parents. He suffered some difficulties because they had no

routine to follow. His parents are living a healthy life and most probably would want to live and

conduct a reasonably free experience at the time they are on vacation. Because Christopher has a

limited perception of life, he would want to take everything as quite official and that his parents

must follow some rules and routines (Haddon 132).

Christopher also finds it an uphill task to connect with the other members of his

community emotionally. He is a dangerous individual who primarily relies on logic to get to

interact with the other individuals. As a result, his narratives and ideas continuously deviate from

the ordinary course of life. He is the individual who would all over suddenly start discussing

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topics like the rate of growth of the frog population in a pond. He then starts bothering the people

around him with the legitimate issues surrounding the scientific facts. These are some of the

attributes that make Christopher have a limited perception of life.

When Christopher leaves Swindon for his mother in London, he profoundly becomes

amazed and baffled by what he perceives as the disorder of the urban landscape. The modern-day

urban settings have tall buildings and a busy lifestyle. The fact that Christopher regards it as a

strange lifestyle makes it evident that he has a limited perception of life.

Subjectivity

Concerning the subject of subjectivity, his state allows him to perceive the world in a

limited and a very uncommon way. Such an attribute also allows the novel to share the

character's unique perception on life. The novel "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-

Time predominantly revolves around a murder mystery. We find that a significant portion of it

also revolves around Christopher's feelings on particular subjects (Haddon 74). On more specific

lines, the novel majorly deviates from the main story being investigated to more personalized

attention to Christopher's thoughts and feelings. It focused more on his reactions after learning

that the death of his mother was a hoax, and also his father lied about it. Christopher further

exhibits a limited perception of life by trying to finds reasons why a letter from the mother would

be dated after her death.

The Struggle to be Independent

The character that Christopher plays in the novel really can get assimilated to that of the

story of many youths who are growing become adults: most of them do not want to be dependent

in the future, and every youth is on the path of realizing their purpose in life. It is quite a limited

perception of life. However, Christopher cannot stop being dependent because he cannot

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comprehend people, adapting to a new environment, and making a decision when presented with

numerous information to choose from. When he feels afraid, he does nothing but to shut up and

try hard not to be part of the world. Despite all this, Christopher has a deep motivation and drives

that he will be independents his desire for independence makes him disobey his father by not

taking his orders (Haddon 109). It gets also portrayed in his dream in which he desires to be

among the few people left on earth and living without anybody ruling them. He also wanted to

go and live by himself in college.

The desire to become independent makes Christopher move out of his comfort zone and

starts being sure of himself because he is seen doing things without the help of anyone.

Christopher s character as a person who is gaining confidence gets seen when he talks to very

many people whom he wasn't familiar with after wellington was murdered. It makes him fill that

he can give solutions to problems. Christopher also passed his A-level examination which gave

him the surety of joining college. There he can live alone without the guidance of his parents.

The trip to London acted as the door opener for Christopher's in tackling his issues like

interacting socially with people, adapting to the new environment and dealing with an overload

of information. By addressing all these, he gained the full confidence to enable him to deal with

his issues.

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Work Cited

Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. National Geographic Books,

2007.

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