Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime Analysis

“It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs.Shears's house.” The way an author narrates their book is a very important factor in the reader’s understanding. The book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon is narrated in first person by a 15 year old autistic boy named Christopher Boone. Having the book narrated by an autistic boy is not a good idea because readers can understand some situations better than Christopher could, he has trouble determining how others feel and he’s always explaining things he doesn’t understand, but most readers do. Christopher is an inadequate narrator which frustrates the readers.

First of all, Christopher shouldn’t have

He will explain things that he doesn’t understand or simple things like a lie. For example he explains, “The word metaphor means carrying something from one place to another.” And goes on to give the readers examples of metaphors. Christopher tells the readers about how he doesn’t understand metaphors and how it should be called a lie instead. He says, “I think it should be called a lie because a pig is not like a day and people do not have skeletons in their cupboards.” Most readers already know what a metaphor is and don’t want to read a whole page explaining what it is. Christopher also explains, “A lie is when you say something happened which didn't happen.” Again, most readers already know what a lie is and find it frustrating to have the narrator constantly explain things to them that they already know. It seems frustrating because Christopher uses up at least one page every time to explain things to the reader that he doesn’t understand, but most readers already do. This frustrates the reader and makes them feel like their time is being wasted. It makes the reader want to stop reading the book because Christopher doesn’t understand a lot of things so he has to do a lot of