Zusammenfassung der Ressource
A Curious Incident of the Dog(e) in the Nighttime
- Themes
- Independence
- Self-Discovery
- Lies and Deception
- Individual Vs. Society
- Genre
- Bildungsroman (Coming of age)
- Christopher leans to adapt
- Detective Novel
- Limited 1st Person Perspective
- Observational Tendencies
- Crime/Mystery Elements. Discovery is central to the novel
- Drama
- Life-changing events
- Occasional Humourous elements
- Children's Story?
- Context
- Haddon is an Atheist
- Haddon used to work with Autistic Children
- Autism is not a theme, but rather a narrative tool
- Observational Tendencies
- Style and Structure
- Illustrations, Drawings
- Alternative view of the world -> Link to Autism?
- Language is very childish and train of thought-y. Lacks Punctuation and connectives
- Language tends to be very matter-of-fact and observational, different from peers and adults
- Flowing tangents, weird links
- Consious Narrative (Diary form)
- Contains elements of both direct and indirect speech