The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: Emotional Aspects
This three page undergraduate essay examines The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, in which author Mark Haddon incorporates bitter humor and murder mystery aspects into his plot and theme in order to explore the power of emotions. In discussing the place of emotion both inside the novel amongst the characters and outside the novel for the reader, it should be noted that Haddon is a creative genius for using a fifteen-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes as his narrator.