Christopher Boone Challenges

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Are you able to comprehend the confrontations faced by an autistic child? In the book “The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night Time” by Mark Haddon, the reader is given the opportunity to understand the challenges faced by the protagonist of the story, Christopher Boone. The author of the book is able to empathize an autistic child, because of his broad knowledge of autism and its many challenges. This will be demonstrated by examining Christopher Boone’s ability to learn to interact with strangers and his ability to deal with new environments. One of the first challenges faced by Christopher was his inability to interact with strangers, because he has been too scared that they might hurt him; thus making him wary of strangers whom he does not trust. In the section of the novel, when he was at the dawn of his investigation to solve the mystery of who killed Wellington, Christopher describes how he does not like to talk to people who he has never met before, because he doesn’t understand them: “I do not like talking to strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand…In France… And I hated it because if …show more content…

Moreover, an individual must overcome a variety of difficult challenges in order to gain a sense of maturity. Therefore, some people may not understand the confrontations faced by an autistic child because they do not understand the many difficult challenges an autistic individual must face in order to gain a sense of maturity. It is important for an individual to understand their capabilities and use the knowledge they attained, towards future challenges and to deal with other situations with a much more mannered

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