Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Narrative Voice

Thinking about Narrative Features of the Novel Re-read Chapter 2 (the first chapter) of the novel.  Describe the style of the first person narration.  What aspects of the narration indicate that the novel may be offering an atypical voice?

Thinking about Narrative Features of the Novel  Although Christopher writes without emotion, there is an intended emotional response within the reader. Re-read the following episodes, then in groups discuss and make notes on the questions that follow:  Chapter47Chapter 97Chapterr 127  Chapter 157Chapter 191Chapter 227  Chapter 233  What is your response to Christopher's realisations or experience in each episode?  For each of the episodes, how dces Haddon's writing style evoke this emotional response in the reader? You might consider:  what detail is included  what Christopher does or does not see andIor understand t  the actions and reactions of others around Christopher  conflict between reader hopes or expectations and what actually happens  the way the information in the episode is revealed - eg: the order of details, sentence length, word choice, dialogue, events that we already know (because of previous information or episodes) Christopher will not be able to deal with.

Thinking about Narrative Features of the Novel  Choose one or two episodes to which you had a strong emotional response and write an analysis of your response using the ideas from activities (a) and (b). Include detailed reference to the novel to justify your ideas.  Even though we are offered the world through Christopher's eyes, we may often see his background world much more clearly than he does. For example after re-reading Chapter 53, describe the relationship between Christopher's father and Ms Shears.

PageChristopher’s ViewWhat the reader learns Clues about the Murder 6Classmate Steve is less intelligent than a dog Christopher attends a special school. Christopher has no concept of tact and seems unaware of others’ feelings n/a 36-7Mother died of a heart attack – this is unusual (38 years old) – must have been an aneurysm. Mrs Shears cooked dinner Christopher is insensitive to father’s feelings. Mrs Shears is closer to Father than Christopher realises