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A Study Guide for Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"
A Study Guide for Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"
A Study Guide for Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"
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A Study Guide for Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"

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A Study Guide for Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Studentsfor all of your research needs.
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Release dateMar 22, 2018
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    A Study Guide for Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" - Gale

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    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

    Mark Haddon

    2003

    Introduction

    Mark Haddon's novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time was a runaway best seller when it was published in 2003. The novel follows Christopher Boone, a fifteen-year-old boy with cognitive and behavioral difficulties, who discovers his neighbor's dog dead on the front lawn. Christopher becomes obsessed with discovering who killed the dog. He decides to write a detective story along the lines of those of his favorite writer, Sherlock Holmes, a quest that results in his discovery that his mother is not dead and that his father has been lying to him about her absence for the past two years. He also discovers that his father killed the dog.

    All of this information so upsets Christopher that he becomes terrified of his father and decides to run away to London to find his mother. His harrowing journey to London is documented in frightening detail. For a boy who is easily overstimulated by external information, navigating the train station, evading policemen, and then venturing into the terrifying London Underground are nearly more than he can handle, but Christopher prevails and is reunited with his mother. When his mother's boyfriend is unwilling to take him in, his mother returns home with Christopher and cares for him as he slowly reconciles with his father. Christopher also passes his A Level (Advanced Level) examination in math, which qualifies him to apply to university. It is a story of triumph over adversity.

    The book remained at the top of the bestseller lists in the United Kingdom and United States for many months, and it won the prestigious Whitbread Prize (now called the Costa Award) and Commonwealth Writers' Prize. It has been made into a stage play, which won seven Olivier Awards in the United Kingdom and five Tony Awards in the United States. Haddon continues to write and has published several more books.

    Author Biography

    Haddon was born on September 26, 1962, in Northampton, England. He holds a B.A. from the University of Oxford and an M.A. from Edinburgh University. He is married to Sos Eltis, a scholar who teaches Victorian, modern, and contemporary literature at the University of Oxford. They have two sons and live in Oxford.

    Haddon held a number of jobs early in his career, including working with children and adults who had physical and mental disabilities. As well as writing, Haddon has had a long career as an artist, cartoonist, and illustrator, working for magazines and newspapers including the Guardian, the New Statesman, and the Sunday Telegraph. In 1987 he published his first children's book, Gilbert's Gobstopper, and began a career as an author and illustrator of children's books. He published sixteen children's books before The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, including two series, the Agent Z books and a series about baby dinosaurs. He also wrote for several children's television series and won a Royal Television Society Award and two BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) awards.

    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime was his first book for adults, although it was published simultaneously by two imprints, one for adult readers and one for young-adult readers. Published in 2003, it became a best seller and won seventeen awards, including the

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