In the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Mark Hadden uses an analogy to further the central idea that human life is a product of a series of lucky occurrences. The protagonist, Christopher Boone, digresses from his thoughts on what is happening presently in his journey to focus on how specious the explanation of divine intervention is in a world where modern science can debunk theories justifying vague and obscure superstition. Hadden’s novel is centered around the thoughts of a potentially autistic teenager overcoming adversity and the difficulties that forced him to change. The central idea that Hadden is trying to communicate through this section of his novel is that human life is simply the unlikely result of evolution,
