In chapter 1 of the novel “the curious incident of the dog in the night – time” written by Mark Haddon, right through the book Haddon explores how individuals are challenged by issues of trust and truth in the world. Haddon also explores the different personal challenges faced by people in the society for example Haddon explores a type of syndrome through the character of Christopher. The syndrome that he explores is called Asperger’s syndrome. Haddon explores the challenges and difficulties of Christopher’s syndrome and how he sees the world and overcomes things that are difficult to Christopher. Through this novel Christopher tries to solve a murder mystery about his next door neighbour’s dog, Wellington. …show more content…
Christopher explains why he doesn’t like these colours on pages 105-107. Christopher lists reasons and here are a few reasons why for yellow, bananas (they also turn brown) yellow flowers (because he gets hay fever from the yellow pollen) and reasons for brown wood (because it goes rotten, gets worms because people used to make machines and vehicles of wood) and a girl at Christopher’s school names Melissa Brown he explains that she’s not actually brown it’s just her last name. Another way that he overcomes this problem he faces is to watch a documentary called the Blue Planet by David Attenborough found on pages 100-101. Christopher explains what happened in the documentary, he explains that the episode was about sea creatures that live around sulphur chimneys which are underwater …show more content…
A few of those challenges can really teach the audience how to feel and think about these challenges that are displayed in the book. Like the ones that I have listed for example the Asperger’s syndrome. People can learn how to deal with people that experience the syndrome. The biggest personal challenge that I have spoken about is truth and trust. The thing with truth and trust is it’s easily broken and takes time to repair. It is the strongest thing in a relationship whether it’s a family relationship or partner. Haddon explains this in the novel and the audience can really learn from their own lies and mistakes in their life. Thank you for