The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time' is all about perspective. Although Mark Haddon does not specifically relate to readers that Christopher, the main protagonist and narrator of the text suffers from Asperger's Syndrome, the text explores how the fifteen-year-old teenager views the people and events which surround him. Taking this disability into account and as readers explore the text, readers realise that the unreliable narration of the first-person perspective is made even more skewed because of how differently Christopher views things, so much so that even learning about the true nature and motivations of his father Ed and mother Judy's actions are threatened. However, this is not quite the case, seeing that more discerning readers are able to interpret the matters of the heart and mind more easily than Christopher.
Christopher's perception and view on people and events in life becomes somewhat limited simply because he suffers from Asperger's Syndrome.......
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