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Lengua y Literatura

The Curious Incident of the Dog

in the Night-time

by Mark Haddon

Schiantarelli, Augusto Carlos

Cedriani, Marcos Daro

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The Novel

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The author

Mark Haddon Born Northampton, 1962

Work with children and adults with mentaland physical disabilities

Writer (Children, Fiction, Graphic novels /Illustration, Drama)

Illustrator Cartoonist

Abstract painter

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Protagonist

Autism

Obsessive compulsive disorder Intelligence

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Structure and genre Murder mystery novel

Family drama Expositive text fragments

Chapter numbering

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Language Metaphors Similes Humour Jargon:

Maths Science Detective fiction

Mistakes British and American English Personified animals

Body language

The dog was stone dead. 4 yellow cars in a row made it a

Black Day [She] held up her right hand and

spread her fingers out in a fan and

It was falling so hard that itlooked like white sparksAnd I said, "I don't know because I don'tknow what Battenberg is."She said, "It's a kind of cake. It has four pinkand yellow squares in the middle and it hasmarzipan icing round the edge."

And I said, "Is it a long cake with a squarecross section which is divided into equallysized, alternately colored squares?"And she said, "Yes, I think you could

probably describe it like that. "

Mr. Shears was my Prime Suspect like Sherlock Holmes and I had to

detach my mind at will to a remarkabledegree

Father wouldn't hide something fromme in my own room unless he wasbeing very clever and doing what iscalled a Double Bluff like in a realmurder mystery novel

But I was frightened in two different ways.And one way was being frightened of beingfar away from a place I was used to, and theother was being frightened of being nearwhere Father lived, and they were in

inverse proportion to one another, so thatthe total fear remained a constant as I gotfurther away from home and further awayfrom Father like thisFear total = Fear new place X Fear near Father =constant

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Similarities with other

detectivesSherlock Holmes

logical reasoning Knowledge of the London map

Adrian Monk Obssessive compulsive disorder

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Themes Fact (truth) vs fiction (lies)

Loss

Struggling for idependence Destroying stereotypes

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Socio cultural aspects

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SmartiesMag-LiteBlakes7

BerniChaosDuneJaffa

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British Pop Culture Trademarks Literature

Television Science fiction

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Disabilities and special Needs

Education in the UK Segregation British humour Disability

awarenessdesigns/graffiti

Family issues

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Disabilities and special Needs

Education in our context

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The construction of the

OtherThe Black

The drug peopleThe Indian

The handicapped

I had seen the people who lived at number 44,but I did not know what their names were.They were black people