Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-Time - Detective Novel
- Looking for clues
- Interviews people
- Searching around
neighbourhood/
Mrs Shears garden
- Memorable character
- Quirks that make him stand out
- Aspergers
- Logical brain/
maths abilities
- Similar to Sherlock Holmes (his idol)
- Know what the author knows
- Verbatim dialogue
- Grice's Maxims of quality/ quantity
- First person narrator
- Dramatic irony: sometimes, reader
knows more e.g. mother's letters
- Result of his HFA/ makes him a
less reliable detective
- Gets confession
- Not fully conventional as didn't come
as a result of his detective work
- However, came from a result of finding
answer to new mystery
- Father killed Wellington
- Finds his mother
- Introduces suspects early on