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THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME BY MARK HADDON GUIDE
OVERALL ANALYSIS
CHARACTER ANALSYSIS
As the protagonist, Christopher is the character we most expect to grow and develop in the course of the novel. However, it's sometimes difficult to measure how much Christopher has matured as a character, if only because his thought processes are so different from other people.
The subtleties of Christopher's inner development - that is, his emotional growth - are not as evident as they would with other first person narrators, in part because he explicitly denies the importance of this aspect. He states time and again that the brain is as mechanistic as a computer and that humans are no more special than animals - views that reflect his own experiences with the limitations from autism. For him, the seams of human thought processes show up more obviously than others, and he has accepted them. Further, his social skills are limited by his autism, which makes it easier for him to identify with animals than people, which is why he values them as much as humans.
His emotional expressions are expressed in a limited fashion, and for a simple reason: when they grow too strong - such as when he discovers his mother is alive or when he travels to London by himself - it manifests in a more physical manner, such as growing sick or blacking out or his mind overloading. Add to this, his emotional reactions to certain revelations are limited by.........
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