Comparing Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time And The Wave

Both writing pieces, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon, and The Wave, by Todd Strasser, express several emotions throughout the story. Due to Christopher John Francis Boone’s autism in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, he only experiences simple and conventional emotions, such as fear, happiness, sadness, etc.. His final encounter with happiness in the book occurred at the tail end of the book, where he states, “And I got the results of my maths A level and I got an A grade, which is the best result, and it made me feel like this…”, followed by a standard drawing of a smiling face. This expresses Christopher’s obvious happiness with many things, such as his discovery of the Wellington’s murderer,

Christopher explains his equation as “... the total fear remained a constant as I got further away from home and further away from Father …”. This demonstrates how Christopher’s journey to rebuild his family and his future was a very difficult and scary one. Just like in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Wave presents an innumerable amount of emotions. Mrs. Saunders, Laurie Saunders’ mother, expresses concern about The Wave long before it even became a big deal. Near the beginning of the book, Mrs. Saunders inquires, “You don’t think it’s dangerous to allow a teacher to manipulate students like that?”, questioning The Wave’s safety. This reveals that Mrs. Saunders is scared of The Wave, and that she is full of fear. However, even earlier in the book, nearly everyone was fascinated by The Wave, including Christy Ross, wife of Ben Ross, school teacher and founder of The Wave. The night after the start of The Wave was the day that Christy Ross was introduced to it, after Ben came home and shared the whole class day with