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Character

Character. in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Christopher.

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Character

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  1. Character in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

  2. Christopher • The book gives us an insight into Christopher’s emotionally simple world, challenging our ordinary perspectives of character and personality. Christopher’s unusual perspective on life is partly as a result of Asperger’s Syndrome and partly just an expression of his unique personality as a human being. • The next slides consider different aspects of his character

  3. Emotional Detachment • He is unable to ‘read’ people’s emotions:p19:p101: • He doesn’t like being touched:p9: • He feels no desire to express affection for other people:p233

  4. Information Overload • Christopher is proud of his powers of observation and memoryp96:p174: • He can not cope with too much information, or too many questions, at once:p8:pp208 – 209:

  5. The need for order • Order and regularity is very important to Christopher, because of the information overloadp32:p174: • He has developed habits because of this need for order and regularitypp106-107: • He always needs to know the timep1:p17:

  6. Science and Mathematics • His love for order explains his passion for maths, which is logical and not ambiguous. He calms himself by doing maths problemsp 149:p 201: • He also uses maths to explain the world to himselfp 15:

  7. Relationship with language • Hates English and metaphors:P19:p22: • Likes literal observations and ‘truth’:p4: p10:

  8. Christopher’s Ritualistic Personality • Colourspp105 – 106 • Carsp31 • Rockingp4: • P258: • Mathematical formulaspp126-127 • Food touchingp62

  9. Christopher as a Detective • Solving a mystery requires at least three processes: gathering information, sifting out what is important and making connections. • Christopher is good at the first of these, but not the second:pp179 – 181: • or third:p32:p63:

  10. Christopher as a Writer • In Christopher, Haddon has constructed a character who seems unsophisticated. • Most of his sentences are short and factual:p1: • Sometimes he writes longer sentences where a string of phrases is joined by conjunctions:p19: • These passages use language effectively to imitate the overwhelming rush of information that causes Christopher distress

  11. Christopher as narrator • Christopher is a fallible, first person narrator. • We see other characters only through his eyes • Because he cannot understand emotions, the reader has to interpret the actions of other characters, as observed by Christopher, to understand how they are feeling. • To discuss:Is Haddon’s creation of Christopher as a narrator successful?

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