The Voice of Christopher

Christopher is such a unique character because of his voice and one of the features that make Christopher so special is digression. Digression is when someone is not talking about the essential topic but other topics which are not related. In the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time page 8 lines 8 to 15 when the policeman asks Christopher many questions about Wellington the dead dog, Christopher gets confused and just starts thinking about Uncle Terry and the factory he owns. Digression was one of the ways the author of this book Mark Haddon used to express that Christopher has Asperger’s Syndrome. When someone has language problems for example when someone takes everything literally and when someone has social problems are a sign of Asperger’s syndrome. In this case in the book, he had social problems.

Another feature which makes Christopher Boone such a unique character is idiomatic language. Idiomatic language is a phrase which has a specific meaning and it is not literally understood. Mostly used by native speakers of that language. It is not that he uses idiomatic language a lot but it is that he can’t understand any metaphors or idioms. In the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time page 19 line 17 to 21 shows that Christopher can’t understand idiomatic language. This is another way the author Mark Haddon showed that Christopher is a special character. People who have Asperger’s syndrome tend to take everything literally and don’t have a wide understanding in language.