Jeremiah T.
The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time
Author Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night Time has both direct and indirect characterization. The author uses indirect characterzation in chapter 11 page 9, it was "I didn't like him touching me like this. And this is when I hit him."The Author is using indirect characterization because he isn't telling us exactly what he is feeling or why we didn't like the police officer touching him. We just know that Christopher is uncomfortable so he hits the Police officer.
The setting can affect the main character Christopher a lot. When he went to the store with his mom he was afraid of all the people and got on the floor and started screaming. Or when he goes to a new place he always makes a map of how the place looks, he is frighten of being in a new surrounding with a lot of people he doesn't know. Thats why he hit the police officer, he doesn't like being touched, not even by his own parents. He doesn't hug them, he gives them hand hugs.
The setting can affect the main character Christopher a lot. When he went to the store with his mom he was afraid of all the people and got on the floor and started screaming. Or when he goes to a new place he always makes a map of how the place looks, he is frighten of being in a new surrounding with a lot of people he doesn't know. Thats why he hit the police officer, he doesn't like being touched, not even by his own parents. He doesn't hug them, he gives them hand hugs.
There isn't really a lot of conflict with Christopeher. Some parts are man vs man or man vs society. Conflict rose because his dad didn't want him to do detective work and try to find out who killed Wellington. Then his dad is always telling him to stop the detective work and stop writing in his book. Another time conflict rose was when Christopher was going on the train by himself and there were a lot of people, he was terrified, he could barely make it to the ticket booth. Then there was a police man looking for him to get him of the train but Christopher hides in a cupboard in the trains bathroom.
This book does seem to have a lot of direct and indirect characterization. I like the examples you use. Although, I do think that the example in the first paragraph might be direct characterization.
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