It’s not so easy to talk about love in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time” due to the narrator, Christopher Boone, struggling with acceptance of love. Christopher can recognize love when he sees it, but this can’t come close to accepting love. Exploring Chris and his relationship with his world will move us to a deeper understanding of acceptance.
Chris struggles to distinctify love.
“Then, when I’ve got a degree in Maths, or Physics, or Maths and Physics, I will be able to get my own job and earns lots of money and I will be able to pay someone who can look after me and cook my meals and wash …show more content…
“But mother was cremated. This means that she was put into a coffin and burnt and ground up and turned into ash and smoke. I do not know what happens to the ash and i couldn’t ask at the crematorium because i didn’t go to the funeral. But the smoke goes out of the chimney and into the air and sometimes i look up into the sky and i think that there are molecules of mother up there, or in the clouds over Africa or the Antarctic, or coming down as rain in the rainforests in Brazil, or in snow somewhere.”
This quote from the text shows how the technique imagery can visualise the molecules of Chris’s mother up in the sky, or clouds with descriptive wording.
This technique allows to show how Chris interacts with the world around him. Despite his inability to identify and understand love as well as unable to feel affection, it shows the reader's how he is able to express his love or inner emotions with logical expressions as a form of expression.
Is love helping them when they get into trouble, looking after them and telling them the …show more content…
This technique perspective shares insight on Chris’s representation of what love is.
Technique perspective and representation allows us to explore how Chris may perceive love and how that perspective on what love is can affect his relationships with others. It reveals to the readers on Chris’s mind, and how he interacts within the world in terms of being quite logically.
In conclusion, Haddon’s portrayal explores Christophers struggles to distinctify love, and to understand what love is through techniques of perspective, tone, theme and representation to name a few. These overall show how Chris can struggle to interact within his relationships and shows the reader how straightforward and logically Christopher's world