The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time adopts his authorial voice, thus demonstrating the symptoms of his disability, “Asperger’s syndrome”. It is a syndrome that allows him to see the world only through his limited, closed, frightened and disoriented perspective, resulting in fear and an inability to understand the perplexing world of people's emotions. His description of events can be somewhat unreliable as he is unable to see the real truths before him. As he tells the story, readers are confronted with his idiosyncrasies - whether it's his disliking of being touched, his fear of germs, strangers and crowds, or his inability to eat foods with particular colors. However, through Christopher's authorial voice, his description of the events of his life, and in particular his description of his quirks which seem completely "normal" to him, make him an interesting and fascinating narrator. As he can prove to be an unreliable narrator, as he is incapable of lying (and understanding lies), which limits his ability to perceive the entire reality of the world, thus providing him with a strange combination of credibility and amazing. Again, this is what makes him a wonderful narrator: sometimes readers may be suspicious of his interpretation of such events, or may believe him. As the novel progresses, Christopher takes his audience on his personal journey and explains to us his phobias, whether they exist or not. they "don't like yellow things or brown things" and "refuse to touch yellow things or brown things", "don't eat food if different kinds of food touch each other" middle of paper.... ..ic at the same time, which is uncomfortable and confusing... It's like three people are trying to talk to you at the same time about different things.” Christopher transforms himself into a wonderful narrator through this device as he introduces us to a syndrome that we believe changes every perspective of a person's life. Laughter, something many of us take for granted, is unfortunately not really experienced by Christopher, another reason why readers would sympathize with him, as the only pleasure he would get in life would be the notions of mathematics and science. Therefore, we learn to admire and sympathize with him because of his intellectual genius and courage, evident through his sleuthing sleuthing he undertakes to search for his mother. We see how this syndrome changes every outlook of a person's life; however, we also see how he faces his demons to find the truth.

Essay / The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time adopts his authorial voice, thus demonstrating the symptoms of his disability, “Asperger’s syndrome”. It is a syndrome that allows him to see the world only through his limited, closed, frightened and disoriented perspective, resulting in fear and an inability to understand the perplexing world of people's emotions. His description of events can be somewhat unreliable as he is unable to see the real truths before him. As he tells the story, readers are confronted with his idiosyncrasies - whether it's his disliking of being touched, his fear of germs, strangers and crowds, or his inability to eat foods with particular colors. However, through Christopher's authorial voice, his description of the events of his life, and in particular his description of his quirks which seem completely "normal" to him, make him an interesting and fascinating narrator. As he can prove to be an unreliable narrator, as he is incapable of lying (and understanding lies), which limits his ability to perceive the entire reality of the world, thus providing him with a strange combination of credibility and amazing. Again, this is what makes him a wonderful narrator: sometimes readers may be suspicious of his interpretation of such events, or may believe him. As the novel progresses, Christopher takes his audience on his personal journey and explains to us his phobias, whether they exist or not. they "don't like yellow things or brown things" and "refuse to touch yellow things or brown things", "don't eat food if different kinds of food touch each other" middle of paper.... ..ic at the same time, which is uncomfortable and confusing... It's like three people are trying to talk to you at the same time about different things.” Christopher transforms himself into a wonderful narrator through this device as he introduces us to a syndrome that we believe changes every perspective of a person's life. Laughter, something many of us take for granted, is unfortunately not really experienced by Christopher, another reason why readers would sympathize with him, as the only pleasure he would get in life would be the notions of mathematics and science. Therefore, we learn to admire and sympathize with him because of his intellectual genius and courage, evident through his sleuthing sleuthing he undertakes to search for his mother. We see how this syndrome changes every outlook of a person's life; however, we also see how he faces his demons to find the truth.

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